Horizontal Impact
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Horizontal Collision Impact on Avionics
Abstract: A Cessna 525B citation CJ3 (a stretched variant of the 525A Citation CJ2) was involved in an on-ground horizontal crash that occurred between a fast moving car and a towed airplane. The Avionics packages were not bench tested before being declared acceptable for continued usage by the manufacturer. A search of the FAA crash and hard landings web listings (Boeing, 2011) revealed few similar and no identical accidents; no statistics …
Published in Journal of Aerospace Engineering & Technology · Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2015 · pp. 30–36 Read article