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On 12 February 2012, a Katanga Express Gulfstream IV business jet carrying several Congolese government officials overran the runway and crashed on landing at Kavumu Airport near Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Two crew members and two passengers were killed, along with two people on the ground.
In June 1987 a Gulfstream IV set 22 world records in its class in flying west around the world in 45 hr 25 min. The next year another GIV set 11 world records flying east around the world. [14] In 1990, Gulfstream CEO Allen Paulson and a Gulfstream flight crew set 35 international records for around-the-world flight in a GIV. [15]
The NTSB found that the flight crew failed to adhere to required pre-flight procedures. [5] Critically, the pilots failed to conduct a flight control check, which would have revealed that the airplane's " gust lock " system, which protects the elevator, ailerons, and rudder from wind gusts while the airplane is parked by locking them in place ...
In 2009, Gulfstream International Airlines came under additional scrutiny due to three fatal crashes that all involved pilots [6] that were trained at the Gulfstream Training Academy (its sister company [7]), the last one in February 2009, where 50 died on Colgan Air Flight 3407 near Buffalo, NY. [8] [5]
The G600 cabin is 3.7 ft (1.1 m) longer than the G500, allowing up to four passenger zones or three 8.75 ft (2.67 m) long zones, a longer galley and a forward crew rest. [ 44 ] The wing is a supercritical design with a 0.87 to 0.88 drag divergence Mach number depending upon lift coefficient. [ 41 ]
Tupolev Tu-154B-1: 4 75 79: N/A Korean Air Flight 803 [132] 27 July 1989 Tripoli, Libya McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30: 4 21 25 † 0 Aerolift Philippines Flight 075 [133] 18 May 1990 Parañaque, Philippines Beechcraft 1900C-1: 4 24 28 † 0 Tbilisi Tupolev Tu-154B crash [134] 20 July 1992 Tbilisi, Georgia Tupolev Tu-154B: 4 109 113 † 1 Air ...
The Gulfstream G650 is a large business jet produced by Gulfstream Aerospace. [3] The model is designated Gulfstream GVI in its type certificate. [4] The aircraft can be configured to carry from 11 to 18 passengers over a range of 7,000 nautical miles [nmi] (13,000 km; 8,100 mi) at a top speed of Mach 0.925 (530.6 kn; 982.7 km/h; 610.6 mph).
[4] [5] A 37-passenger stretched version, the G-159C, was developed by Gulfstream for regional airline use. Five were delivered from November 1980. [6] Air North (based in Plattsburgh NY and which subsequently changed its name to Brockway Air) was one of the few airlines in the U.S. to use this version before its acquisition by Brockway Glass.