Learjet Offroading

[Skåning]

Don't let going off the end stop you from taxing in, just send it

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1467479295853539330

Google translate:

A #Learjet31 registration XA-SMM, excursioned the runway yesterday at #Ensenada #Airport, Baja California, during landing.
According to local authorities, the plane was only carrying the crew (Captain/First Officer), who fortunately did not report any injuries....1/2

 

[touch-n-go]

Hopefully the flight crew was actually qualified to fly a Learjet unlike this crew fom back in 2008...

2008 Mexico City Learjet crash - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[Roger Roger]

It’s a legacy Lear, I’m just amazed the nosewheel steering worked well enough to get back on pavement.

 

[knot4u]

It’s a legacy Lear, I’m just amazed the nosewheel steering worked well enough to get back on pavement.

You'd hope a 31 would have the later version. If you've ever taxied a 20 series or an early 35 you know of what I speak. The upgrade was a huge improvement.

 

[Roger Roger]

You'd hope a 31 would have the later version. If you've ever taxied a 20 series or an early 35 you know of what I speak. The upgrade was a huge improvement.

The 31 really wasn’t horrible once you got used to it, though we always had problems with them not wanting to engage. I did one training flight in a 35, no idea which version, but it was AWFUL. So easy to get into an oscillation.

 

[knot4u]

The 31 really wasn’t horrible once you got used to it, though we always had problems with them not wanting to engage. I did one training flight in a 35, no idea which version, but it was AWFUL. So easy to get into an oscillation.

I worked at a place where we had a stand to put the entire NLG assembly into next to the airplane with harnesses to connect them so we might try to figure out what sort of evil the steering was subjecting the crew to. Learjets, what are going to do?

 

[ASpilot2be]

I mean, if runways and taxiways aren't roads, aren't we always offroading?

 

[Oxman]

Well, if the tire has a chine, what's the harm?

 

[Minuteman]

El aeropuerto in Ensenada has a paved 4800-foot runway.

 

[CFIscare]

Looks like me playing Microsoft Flight Simulator back in the day.

 

[Minuteman]

I looked up the ADS-B history for the tail. History ✈ XA-SMM - FlightAware

The aircraft made its first flight last Tuesday after 53 days on the ground at Ensenada.

They landed on 29 and that white building in the background at the end of the video is due north of the departure end of the runway (the road at the end of the runway points at it). Still can't quite figure out where the jet was; but they appear to have gone past the end in a westerly direction and were swinging wide to line up back with 11. Maybe?