Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3 crash, Nov 11, 2012, São Paul...
Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3 accident on November 11, 2012 near São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo, Brazil with no fatalities. Cause: Landing at excessive...
- Date: November 11, 2012
- Aircraft: Cessna 525B CitationJet CJ3
- Location: São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Landing at excessive speed with a tailwind, with the crew failing to assess the remaining runway, not using available speed brakes, and poor crew coordination in raising concerns about speed (investigation findings as summarized by BAAA).
A Cessna CitationJet CJ3 charter from Florianopolis landed long and fast on runway 35R at Congonhas. The crew could not stop within the remaining runway, the aircraft went down an embankment and came to rest against a fence, broken in two. The captain was seriously injured, the copilot and passenger slightly injured, and the aircraft was destroyed.