Aware that their passengers were in a hurry to land, the Israel Aerospace Industries Gulfstream G150 flight crew continued an unstable approach with a quartering tail wind to Ridgeland-Claude Dean (South Carolina, U.S.) Airport, touched down 1,000 ft (305 m) beyond the runway threshold and experienced a failure of the ground air brakes before the G150 ran off the end of the runway, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.
The two pilots and three passengers on the U.S. Federal Aviation Regulations Part 91 executive/corporate flight were uninjured in the May 5, 2021, accident, but the airplane’s fuselage and wings were substantially damaged, the NTSB said.
Along the route to Ridgeland from New Smyrna Beach, Florida, when a passenger asked when they would arrive at Ridgeland, the pilot-in-command (PIC) — who had 9,100 flight hours, including 100 hours in the G150 — responded that he would “speed up. I’ll go real fast here.” The second-in-com…
