‘We’re Trying to Win a Race’

Aware that their passengers were in a hurry to land, the Israel Aerospace Industries Gulfstream G150 flight crew continued an unstable approach with a quartering tail wind to Ridgeland-Claude Dean (South Carolina, U.S.) Airport, touched down 1,000 ft (305 m) beyond the runway threshold and experienced a failure of the ground air brakes before the G150 ran off the end of the runway, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) says.

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