NTSB investigates Minn. plane crash that killed 8

NTSB investigates Minn. plane crash that killed 8

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OWATONNA, Minn. - Federal investigators returned Friday to the site of a plane crash that killed eight people, hoping to find clues to what brought down the corporate jet as it tried to land.
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The Raytheon Hawker 800 was carrying six casino and construction executives from New Jersey to a business meeting in this town about 60 miles south of the Twin Cities.

They and the two pilots were killed when the jet crashed around 9:45 a.m. Thursday, shortly after severe weather had moved through southern Minnesota.

Roy Redman, president of RARE Aircraft Inc., a mechanics company at the airport, said Friday that he was inside and heard the plane land on the runway. Moments later, one of his mechanics who had watched the landing came running around the building, yelling that the jet had gone off the runway and disappeared in some trees in the distance.

Redman, who called 911, said the mechanic told him the jet landed, then went airborne, rolled, and hit the ground.

The National Transportation Safety Board was reviewing the weather, as well as the plane's structure, its control systems and other factors. A cockpit voice recorder and a flight management system were recovered and sent to the NTSB lab in Washington for analysis.

The executives were coming to Owatonna to meet with representatives of a local glass company called Viracon to discuss a $2 billion hotel-casino complex being built in Atlantic City by Revel Entertainment.

The charter jet, flying from Atlantic City, went down in a cornfield northwest of Degner Regional Airport. The wreckage was not visible from the airport, and roadways leading to the site were blocked off.

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Another small plane crash. Eight people killed. Even though air travel is safer than driving a car, I adknowledge that we do need to keep more tabs on plane inspections and equipment failure, even though it looks like this crash was possibly not equipment failure.

How long will this last?

Also on another note, there were good pictures before the plane wreakage is picked up. All those 9-11 conspirators might want to use the pictures to use what a crashed plane looks like in relation to United 93 crash.

Does anyone else think that we need to inspect planes more and have more required safety procedures, or is that too much?

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Dude get your facts straight, it was a Business Jet. It was landing and went off the runway, VERY different than going into the ground nose first at a steep angle at High speed.(to your reference to the flight 93).
By the way you wrote your thread its obvious you have dislikes to aviation.

And no I don't think we need more inspections or saftey prcedures, why fix something thats not broke.

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Okay, like the assumptions..

Well, contrary to the fact, I actually fly more than most people. And trust me, I didn't know if I didn't come out straight and mention it, but it obviously stated in the article it was a corporate jet from NJ. I usually don't come straight and say it, because I assume people on ATS are smart enough to read the article.

*No insult to you*

The reason why I was mentioning airline safety was for small jets and larger passenger planes as well.

The chances of dying in a small jet, or 'commuter' plane are higher:

100,000 hrs =.089 fatalities for Airlines
100,000 hrs =2.305 fatalities for small commuter jets

If you do the math, the difference is nearly 25% for 100,000 fatalities.
That means, if you die in a plane crash, you are 25% more likely to me in a smaller commuter jet.

Why should these statistics be any different than airlines... Safety and training, we need more of it for less experienced pilots.