Florida plane crash on I-75

I would have taken the median.......

 

It's amazing that the three passengers not only survived they walked away.

 

Crazy how long it took 4 wheelers to start braking . Pilot had a lot of speed still he might’ve been better trying to stay airborne longer to line up interstate unless his generator wasn’t working to provide controls.

 

Doubt it. If it had ran out of fuel, there wouldn't have been a big ### fire.

 

It has the same engines, but some of the systems might not be the same. I'm not real sure that the Challenger has the same oil/fuel heat exchangers that the CRJ has. I haven't seen the fuel temp chart for that airframe, so I don't know how long they would have at altitude before the fuel started to gel. Funny thing is...if they declined to add Prist to save money, that is odd... every time I have bought JetA the cost per gallon was the same with/without Prist. I have known some small operators to buy EXACTLY enough fuel to not pay a landing fee at some airports. That kind of operation would be just as likely to not buy Prist, because some accountant in the back office thinks it would save $20.

 

Yea, I'm not familiar with all the systems of that plane, just the engines mainly. I used to work on the Falcon 10, Citation 2 and Airbus A319. Ironically the CRJ is the small bizjet I know the most about OTHER than the CJ2 and F-10 that I actually turned wrenches on. But the systems in the canadian jets are slightly different so I never bothered to learn them. I knew I'd never do anything with one.

The engines flamed out at 1800 feet in south west Florida. I highly doubt ice was a problem. When I was in Florida a couple of weeks ago it was almost 80 degrees at the surface, so 1800 won't be below 60 much less cold enough to freeze jet fuel.

 

Here's Juan's take the day after.
He gets pretty in-depth on the fuel system at about 10:44.

 

Minor update

 

Both the captain and the first officer were highly experienced with over 10,000 hours of flight time. The first officer however only had 138 hours on that particular aircraft type. The plane itself was 20 years old,having been manufactured in 2004.