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This is the story of the 2015 blackbushe phenom crash. On the 31st of july 2015 a phenom 300 private jet was to fly from milan italy to blackbushe airport in the UK. Now this private jet didnt have just any standard rich people on board. On today's flight was bin laden's immediate family. Yes, that bin laden. Todays occupants were raja Hashim one of the wives of bin ladends dad, her daughter sana bin laden and the daughters husband zuhair hashim. What i find interesting about all of this is that the bin laden clan was free to private jet about the entire planet despite them being immediate family members of the man who used to be the most wanted man on earth. I assumed that his immediate family would be sanctioned or something but apparently not. Well for whatever reason the family had chartered a jet and they were being flown by a single pilot who had 11,000 hours of flying experience.
We join the phenom, tail number HZ-IBN as it descends through the london terminal area, As the plane streaked across london it was handed over from ATC region to ATC region eventually ending up in the control of farnborough approach. Blackbushe airport is kind of a hot spot for business jets as it offers easy access to the stuff rich people like to do in england. Which is probably drinking very expensive tea.
When the pilot had the runway in sight, Farnborough approach cleared the phenom to descend under the pilot's discretion. Once the plane was closer to the airport the controller asked the pilot to contact blackbushe information. The phenom the entered the left hand circuit for runway 25 via the crosswind leg. But as the phenom entered the circuit, it flew very near to a microlight. Seeing the mircolight the pilot started to climb in an attempt to avoid the microlight. This is when the TCAS kicked in. TCAS, traffic collision avoidance system is as the name suggests a system designed to warn pilots about traffic conflicts and gives them resolution advisories. Basically if the system thinks that youre gonna crash into another plane it will ask you to climb or descend. Basically the system will tell you what it thinks will minimize the chance of a collision.
In this case the TCAS system asked the pilot to descend. This advisory quickly changed to “maintain vertical speed” which then again changed to “ adjust vertical speed”. This was because the climb had put the phenom very close to another plane that was above it.
Once the phenom was clear of the conflict it was way too high and fast, the pilot put the plane into a curving turn as it descended towards the runway threshold. The rate of descent at some points reached 3000 feet per minute. In fact the plane hit that 3000 feet per minute of descent value between 1200 and 500 feet. If you cant tell this is one approach that should be abandoned. After breaching 500 feet the rate of descent slowed. Why dont you pause the video go down into the comments and drop your guess as to what the new rate of descent is. Ill wait. Are you back, its 2500 feet per minute. For the uninitiated thats screaming fast. The jet passed over the runway threhsold at 151 knots, for some context it was supposed to be at 108 knots. This jet was wayy to fast. Then it touched down very hard and very far down the runway. Seeing the plane land the AFISO or the aerodrome flight information service officer initiated a full emergency because he knew that there was no hope of this plane stopping in the runway that was left.
10 май 2022
