On March 3, a business-class jet built by Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier was flying from New Hampshire to Virginia when things suddenly went very wrong. A series of alarms began going off in the cockpit. The pilots, following a troubleshooting checklist, shut off an automatic trim stabilizer on the plane’s tail. At that point, the Bombardier Challenger 300 twin-engine jet suddenly ascended so sharply that the two pilots and three passengers – a husband and wife and their son- were subjected to four G’s of downward force. The plane then went into a nosedive before surging back upward again. The pilots eventually regained control of the plane, but not before the mother, Dana Hyde of Maryland, was thrown violently around the cabin. The plane was diverted for an emergency landing, but Hyde later died from blunt trauma injuries at a local hospital. An NTSB investigation is ongoing, but clearly, a lot of things went wrong. (NY Post)Read More
NTSB: Business jet death not caused by turbulence
