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Plane Goes Off Runway After Landing At Allegheny County Airport

A private plane went off the runway after landing at the Allegheny County Airport.

pittsburgh.cbslocal.com

Type:	Honda HA-420 HondaJet
Owner/operator:	Jet It LLC
Registration:	N903JT
MSN:	42000224
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Unknown
Category:	Incident
Location:	Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Airport (AGC/KAGC), PA - United States of America
Phase:	Landing
Nature:	Private
Departure airport:	Teterboro Airport, NJ (TEB/KTEB)
Destination airport:	West Mifflin-Allegheny County Airport, PA (AGC/KAGC)
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news or social media reports

Narrative:
A Honda HA-420 HondaJet, N903JT, suffered a runway excursion after landing at Pittsburgh-Allegheny County Airport (AGC/KAGC), Pennsylvania.
The aircraft came to the rest on a hillside. There were no injuries.

 

[NovemberEcho]

I work this guy almost daily. It was snowing at the time, so maybe slippery spot on the runway? 6500’ runway though.

Plane goes off runway at Allegheny County Airport

Sky 4 video showed the plane sitting on a hillside in a snowy area off the runway at Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin.

www.wtae.com

 

[greg1016]

here are the relevant weather observations

 

[greg1016]

It's a 6500' runway. Close to approach minimums with the weather changing rapidly. I'd think that is a bigger factor. Most jets that small are gonna make TWY C with that wind, and almost everything that flies in there will make G unless the crosswind is severe.

 

[pwttogfk]

Light jets are great at lots of stuff. Contaminated runways not so much. Just looked at our flight today, and a landing distance of 2803’ on a dry runway becomes 5204’ with compact snow for the CJ3. Break out at mins, float a bit? Easy to eat up a lot of runway.

 

[Max Power]

Nearly in my own backyard, I’m only 10 min from AGC, flew and instructed out of here. It was kind of ugly here at the time this happened today, around 0830l. Fortunately everyone was OK. This could have been much worse!

 

[GypsyPilot]

Light jets are great at lots of stuff. Contaminated runways not so much. Just looked at our flight today, and a landing distance of 2803’ on a dry runway becomes 5204’ with compact snow for the CJ3. Break out at mins, float a bit? Easy to eat up a lot of runway.

Yeah, no ground spoilers on the CJ3 if I remember correctly? Just ground flaps? Plus no TRs.

 

[Boris Badenov]

suffered a runway excursion after landing

"suffered" a runway excursion. As though the skies just split asunder and a runway excursion came down like a thunderbolt. Unforseeable! Act of God! Get off my lawn!

 

[Beefy McGee]

That's a pretty good parking brake.

 

[greg1016]

I've had nightmares about planes running down that hill...it is steeper than this photo looks.

 

[greg1016]

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[Max Power]

I've had nightmares about planes running down that hill...it is steeper than this photo looks.

It’s fairly deep and access is limited too, although at least there is a road into the bottom if you slide that far.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

VTech kicked in yo.

 

[BobDDuck]

It’s fairly deep and access is limited too, although at least there is a road into the bottom if you slide that far.

Similar to the south end of Charlie South. The CRJ that got stuck in the EMAS there was about 12 feet from going over the edge.

 

[DropTank]

No thrust reversers, single wheel with crappy brakes.
Hondas love the runway and aren't forgiving on hot landings.
This is the 3rd or 4th overrun that i know of in the past few years of the HondaJets

Also, Yikes!

Possible candidate for EMAS (or whatever the foamy concrete is called)

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

"suffered" a runway excursion. As though the skies just split asunder and a runway excursion came down like a thunderbolt. Unforseeable! Act of God! Get off my lawn!

It was a real tragedy…

 

[Jimmy_Norton]

Boy, JetIt sure seems like they need a big training and safety revamp.

 

[greg1016]

No thrust reversers, single wheel with crappy brakes.
Hondas love the runway and aren't forgiving on hot landings.
This is the 3rd or 4th overrun that i know of in the past few years of the HondaJets

Also, Yikes!

Possible candidate for EMAS (or whatever the foamy concrete is called)

There has been talk of installing emas but it would require shortening the runway so I think they shelved the idea.

 

[TWP]

Swap some decent Jeep tires on that bad boy and let’s go climb another hill. Y’all are just jealous he’s clearly having a good time.

 

[guywhoflies]

Similar to the south end of Charlie South. The CRJ that got stuck in the EMAS there was about 12 feet from going over the edge.

*Charlie West (CRW)