"...WE'RE REALLY FAST." Those are the words of the pilot monitoringthe flight of a Cessna Citation Latitude as it approached the threshold of Runway 24 at the Elizabethton, Tennessee, Municipal Airport. Nine seconds earlier the airplane was decelerating through 174 KIAS. "I'm at idle," the pilot flying said, followed by, "Do I need to go around?" "No," said the pilot monitoring. Four seconds after that, the pilot flying said, "I got the speed brakes out." Then: "I'll be on the TRs thrust revers-ers quickly." But 8 seconds later the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) captured the first of two sounds similar to a touchdown, and two unidentified alert chimes. "Hang on, hang on" were the last words on the recording.
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