Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

[Danseaman]

At around 0700Z Bristol Flying Centre's Citation Jet G-CITJ was back tracking runway 09 for departure and as approaching the end he reported ''Brake Failure'' but managed to vacated via taxiway G where it suddenly swerved off to the right where it came to a rest on the grass!

Anyway, I was there to see it happen and to see the recovery! So here they are:

Back tracking and declaring a brake failure:



The moment of exiting the taxiway onto the grass:



Fire service arrive within a minute of the Citation declaring a brake failure:









A couple of hours of talking and calls to the AAIB the recovery started:

[EGVP]

Ooo-errr! Must have been interesting approaching that drop at the end of the runway!

[Danseaman]

It was back tracking 09 for departure to Guernsey!

[Mike]

What a great catch - right place,right time

[Jordan B]

Awesome catch Dan, and great shots!

[Headset 57]

Dan,
Have also posted this into Incidents section.
Jeff