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Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:14 pm
by 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:

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The moment of exiting the taxiway onto the grass:

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

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

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Re: Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:15 pm
by EGVP
Ooo-errr! Must have been interesting approaching that drop at the end of the runway!

Re: Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:18 pm
by Danseaman
It was back tracking 09 for departure to Guernsey!

Re: Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:34 pm
by Mike
What a great catch - right place,right time :thumb:

Re: Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 1:29 pm
by Jordan B
Awesome catch Dan, and great shots! :D :pop:

Re: Brake Failure And Skidding Off Taxiway!

Posted: Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:20 pm
by Headset 57
Dan,
Have also posted this into Incidents section.
Jeff