My thoughts are with the family. My father was an airline pilot and I oftened worried I would never see him again when he left for his trips. Fortunately he had 30+ flawless years.

My husband had 30 flawless years too. His 31st year, not so flawless.

Looks like left side thrust reverser is engaged, must have landed long and ran out of runway.

My condolences to the families and friends of the people aboard the aircraft!

You're right, Rick, the thrust reverser is engaged. So the question is, did he land long and run out of runway or did the braking system on the wheels fail? I would suspect he landed long and ran out of real estate before he could come to a complete stop.

The Airframe in the picture does not look consistent with a Dassualt Mystere-Falcon 20: The tail is taller and the tail wings (Horizontal Stabilizers) are at the very top of the Vertical Stabilizer, and not mid tail like the Mystere Falcon- 20. It looks like a much bigger plane.

The return leg of a one way charter?

3 people died does it matter if a flight attendant and no other passengers were on board. RIP peace to the three victims!

Ahh never mind, it looks like it ran along the ground for a while, thus the broken up fence.

Wow you can get all that from a single picture and a 127 word story Mr. Accident Investigator?

I guess no one ever told you, that when an airplane crashes as a result of a "stall" there is typically a high angle impact?

Keep your day job.

Notice the trees are just a little carved up?

I believe the fence was taken down by the people trying to get to the plane and not the plane itself. It appears the deep cuts on the trees are from the wings that are no longer attached to the sides. So, common sense says the planes path came from that direction and not where the fence is down. Just my surmise from the photo.

I'd like to see some photos from other angles. The trees & the plane look surprisingly intact. (....and NO...I WON'T quit MY day job either......Just making an observation...)

If you look closer, you'll see a Gremlin on the right wing screwing up the plane...

I agree with you that it is a Gulfstream IV. Intake on the left side of the verticle stab and the strake running forward of the stab. The falcon has a mid t tail.

Definately not a Falcon. Best goes is a Gulfstream.

As an aircraft mechanic who works on these types of aircraft everyday, I can most assuredly tell you that the aircraft in the picture is deffinately a Gulfstream G-IV, not a Falcon 20. 1. Engines - those are Rolls-Royce Tay 611s one there with the thrust reverser buckets that Gulfstream used. Falcon 20s that aren't being used as freighters habe TF731s on them with a similar style, but different construction thrust reverser. 2. Tail - Gulfstream = T-Tail, Falcon = Cruciform Tail. 3. Overall size. The Gulfstream is roughly 3 times larger then a Falcon 20/200. Very top of the tail on a Gulfstream is approx. 30 feet up, on the Falcon it's more like 15 feet. When you're sitting on the top of the Gulfstream's tail, it sure feels alot higher! 4. Location- While not impossible, it is not very likely that an American crew would be flying a Falcon 20 in France, as a 20 wouldn't have the range to fly the pond without stopping at least twice for gas, and a G-IV can go from the US midwest to Europe non-stop without breaking a sweat.

Way to fact check be for posting the story.

Yes it is a Gulfstream IV not a Dasssult. Universal Jet Aviation the owner confirmed this.

I agree. The Falcons I have travelled in (only two times) the vertical stab was above the horizontal stabilizer forming a "t" not a "T" like this photo. GS 650 or 550?? The Citation 750 X mght be in the running.

Yep Gulfstream IV....5 SOB and counting (Souls on Board)

Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that. The reverse thrust bucket alone was the tip off. No other engine looks like the Rolls Royce Tay on a GIV and up. It almost looks too big for the aircraft.

Look closer at the trees towards the front. Denuded of any leaves and all blackened. then look at the scars on the 3 trees to the right and you can see where the wing struck them. The aircraft appears to have sheared its wings and burst into flame.

Yeah Dog, if you look thru the left of the trees, you'll notice there's a lack of the foreward half of the fuselage.

Heavy rooted based fixed objects and structures verses aluminum tend to shorten your life span when they impact you at between 100-200mph.

They died of auto-erotic suicide

How the heck did you find out the tail number? I don't see anything.

Uhm, there often isn't enough room at airports to spare another 500' off the end of the runway. Many airports were built long before the area around them developed and encroached right up to the fence. Look at Chicago's Midway for example. Every runway butts up against the street.

Exactly. I figure if I can drive to my destination in 8 hours or less, I'm driving to avoid flying hassles. Now if gas shoots up to $5-7 or more per gallon due to Iran doing something stupid like blockading the Strait of Hormuz, well, that may change.

Iran wont do anything stupid, america will by trying to get into the perisan gulf, the US will sink one of our old battleships and blame it on them. Thus the beginning of ww3

Iran wont be the stupid one. America will try to enter the persian gulf. US will sink one of its old useless battleship with nuclear reactors and blame it on iran. Thus beginnning of WW3 enjoy ur 5-7 dollar gas GO BIODIESEL

ThEg,

All I can say is you are 100% correct.

Go to Fox News. Get brainwashed, or at least lied to.