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This is the story of how the king of england crashed a private jet. You heard that right this video is not clickbait, the current king of England, King Charles the third crashed the queen's private jet and this is how that happened. For those of you that dont know the royal family has a private jet. Now that I think about it the royal family probably has many private jets. From what i can find the royal family has a VIP A330 and they charter planes as needed, sometimes small private jets sometimes the concorde, the royal squadron had 2 bae 146s for short haul VIP transport and that will be the focus of our video today. The bae 146 was perfect for short haul royal transpoerrt because it had impressive shortfield performance meaning that it could squeeze into the tiny little airports scattered around london and around the UK. The 4 engines meant that the On the 29th of june 1994 one of those bae 146s was to fly from aberdeen airport to Islay-Glenegedale Airport. The plane had 11 people onboard one of whom was the then prince of wales his royal highness charles the third. Oh thats not me being pretentious by the way the final report actually referees to charles as his royal highness. The flight left aberdeen 23 minutes late and since the distance between aberdeen and ily is less than 200 miles they couldnt really make up the time in transit. Thus as they got closer to ily they were running behind just a bit. The captain and the first officer were preparing for the landing and 10 minutes before landing charles took over from the first officer in the left hand seat. Now the final report for this incident is only 3 pages long and it took days of diggin just to find that, so we dont have a lot of information on how the transfer took place. Did the first officer go, would you like to have a go your highness or did charles ask to be in control? We dont know. There are no transcripts of cockpit conversations. Do let me know what you think happened in the comments below. With prince charles at the controls the plane was now getting close to ILY. as they prepped for the landing they got a weather report from islay. The winds were at 250 degrees at 20 knots and they had broken cloud cover at 500 feet and 1000 feet. They could land on either runway 13 or runway 31 which would give them a stopping distance of 1245 meters or .77 miles which is more than enough for the plucky 146. But due to the cloud cover and the high terrain to the south east the captain decided to fly a procedural approach to runway 13. The captain was guiding prince charles though the approach, they were charting the best possible course to the runway missing as much of the clouds as possible. The bae 146 then lined up with runway 13 and prince charles took the plane down towards the runway and within a few minutes the jet was almost at the runway. Then the jet touched down. But there was something wrong there wasnt a whole lot of runway remaining from the point of touch down they only had about 784 meters or half a mile left to stop, but heres the thing its not like the prince could just slam on the brakes from this point and then stop because he landed nose down meaning that the nose wheels made contact with the runway first. At the point of touch down the main gear had not even made contact yet,. The pilots in the cockpit and were frantically trying to get the engines into ground idle and deploy the spoilers but the jet just did not seem to want to slow down. With just 500 meters remaining on the runway the jet finally landed and then from that point on they were trying to bleed off as much energy as possible to stop the jet in time. They were braking so hard that two of the main tyres exploded. As the jet reached the end of the runway the captain knew that the jet wouldnt be able to stop and so he tried to route the plane over to the a taxiway on the left but that did not work and the plane went over the runway and settled into the soft mud. The ferocious braking before hand had kind of worked as the plane overran the runway at a low speed. But it wasn't slow enough the soft mud broke the nose gear of the plane and it