Fatal Nosewheel Landing

Credit: National Transportation Safety Board
A Cessna Citation 501 pilot and his four passengers were killed on March 15, 2012, when what should have been a routine fair weather landing at Macon County, N.C., Airport (1A5) turned sour after two unstabilized VFR approaches. Two witnesses — one of them a pilot — watched the Citation approach...

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