An old video about a jet at Bader field NJ

From Wikipedia..last line says it all......”On May 15, 2005, the Cessna CitationJet 525A registered OY-JET overran the runway when attempting a 10 knots tailwind landing, ending up in the adjoining Intracoastal Waterway.[7] An eyewitness video captured the accident from the final approach to the rescue of the plane's occupants by local boaters and the subsequent inadvertent operation of the aircraft as an "airboat".[8] The NTSB report of the accident noted, "...the airport diagram...observed attached to the pilot's control column after the accident...read, 'airport closed to jet aircraft'”
 
Wow, this brings back memories! I remember seeing that plane in the water there. It is very shallow in that location. That was the final straw as far as Bader Field was concerned. That crash prompted it's eventual closing to all aircraft. That Citation wasn't the only plane to end up in the drink at that facility.
 
Not so much an dunking it from a run off but a stupid pilot who could not read a chart or airport designater
Downwind, above landing speed, wet surfaces and it was not AC International. You would think the lack of jets would have been a factor
 
It really is amazing the mistakes even professional pilots make. Luckily only a small percent of the mistakes end up as an accident and on the news. Pilots are people too. What is really hard to understand is that often there are two pilots on board and these things still can happen. Many times though there is a senior captain and a junior FO that hesitates to point out the elders' mistake out of either fear or respect.
 
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