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Jets
Jets‘Sink Rate’ Warning
Embraer 500 Phenom. Substantial damage. Two serious injuries.
The flight crew was conducting a charter flight with three passengers from San Jose, California, U.S., to Sedona, Arizona, the afternoon of May 25, 2011. The destination airport was at an elevation of 4,830 ft and was reporting visual meteorological conditions with surface winds from 250 degrees at 3 kt.
Nearing Sedona, the crew briefed for a visual approach to Runway 21, which was 5,132 ft (1,564 m) long and had a 1.9 percent…
