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Embraer Phenom 100 Crash near Washington, DC

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  1. JetForums, Dec 8, 2014
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    At least three people onboard an Embraer Phenom 100 light jet were killed this morning while on approach to an airport outside the Washington, D.C. area. The first fatal accident for the type aircraft occurred while on approach to runway 14 at the Montgomery County Airpark, about one mile short of the runway. The Phenom 100 went down in a residential area. Fire department officials say at least three people were on board and did not survive the accident.

    The jet took off Monday morning from Chapel Hill on its way to Montgomery County Airpark in Maryland. Eyewitnesses described the aircraft as flying very low with motion that could indicate a stall-like condition. The pilot did not make a distress call prior to the accident, however airport officials had been warning other pilots in the traffic pattern of a large number of birds in the vicinity of the runway.

    The twin-engine Embraer Phenom 100 jet struck three houses in a fiery crash. The jet was registered to Sage Aviation LLC of Chapel Hill, which was owned by Dr. Michael Rosenberg, president and CEO of Durham-based Health Decisions, a global clinical research firm.
    Rosenberg was a physician and former manager at the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He founded Health Decisions in 1989 and gathered numerous awards for his work.

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  2. Jet News, Dec 9, 2014
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    So sad!
  3. P38wannabe, Dec 12, 2014
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    Seems like lot of Phenom 100's involved in incidents and accidents lately
  4. wdrzal, Dec 18, 2014
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  5. Vlieënier, Aug 8, 2015
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    I witnessed this one →
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  6. Vlieënier, Aug 10, 2015
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    And just a short few days ago.
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    Investigators have determined that HZ-IBN an Embraer Phenom 300 landed long and overran the runway at Blackbushe after an unstable high-speed approach which had involved a conflict with a microlight. The aircraft struck an earth bank, which sheared off the nose-gear, before the jet briefly became airborne and collided with several parked cars in a British Auto Auction car park, about 70m beyond the runway end.

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    The Saudi-registered jet was already two-thirds of the way down the 1,059m (3,474ft) runway 25 before it touched down, still traveling at 134kt.

    UK Air Accidents Investigation Branch analysis indicates that the aircraft would have needed at least 616m to stop, but had landed with just 438m of paved surface remaining – of which only 349m was part of the declared available landing distance.

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    None of the four occupants – a pilot and three passengers – survived the impact and subsequent fire.

    Investigators have released only preliminary information about the 31 July accident, but the data indicates that the aircraft continued with a fast and unstable approach, at a high rate of descent, despite a series of ground-proximity warnings.

    The initial inquiry found that Phenom had encountered a microlight as it flew the downwind leg of the approach at about 1,000ft.

    It climbed slightly to overtake the microlight, and the crew received a collision-avoidance advisory ordering the Phenom to descend. The jet then descended at a rate of up to 3,000ft/min towards the threshold of runway 25.

    Investigators have determined that the aircraft was still at 1,200ft while just 1.1nm from the threshold, far above a typical 3° glideslope. Its rapid descent meant it crossed the threshold at 50ft but still traveling at 150kt – over 40kt above the calculated target airspeed of 108kt.

    Six ground-proximity warnings, ordering the pilot to “pull up”, had been generated during the approach. But the pilot did not execute a missed approach.

    Investigators are continuing their analysis of the accident and have yet to reach any conclusions. The approach had been conducted in daylight and good weather.

    Among the passengers were the stepmother and sister of Osama bin Laden.