Citation no brakes

[pelmet]

Kind of scary. I know some aircraft have an emergency brake.

"C-FNCT, an Algonquin Airlink Inc. Cessna 550 operating as flight FSY550, was on a flight from
Calgary Intl, AB (CYYC) to Whitehorse/Erik Nielsen Intl, YT (CYXY). Upon landing, the co-pilot,
who was pilot flying, announced that he had no brakes. The Captain took control of the aircraft and
found that he also had no brakes, and that control of the aircraft was becoming difficult. The aircraft
departed the right side of Runway 32L and came to rest in 15 cm of snow, approximately 3 metres
from the edge of the runway. There were no injuries and damage to the aircraft was minor.
Subsequent maintenance inspection determined that there was residual air in the brake lines after
the last maintenance work performed on the aircraft. The operations department has amended the
checklist for the C550 to include a pre-landing brake check, as well as requiring the CYXY crew to
do more currency flying."

[longjon]

Why wasn't the emergency brake bottle used, Don't tell me the crew of 2 was flying and both didn't remember there is emergency brakes. WTF. Let me get this straight, the crew did a start and taxi off the ramp, down a taxi way and on to the runway and didn't notice they had no brakes?
If they landed and the normal brakes failed and they forgot they had emergency brakes then really had a brain fa-t. But if the normal brakes failed and they pulled that big red handle for emergency brakes and nothing happened then its another story. A maintenance check is to apply the emergency brakes, then re charge the bottle, If this was not done then ???

[co-joe]

How is it that you need brakes to maintain directional control in a jet? So no differential thrust, no buckets, and no nose wheel steering either? Jezuz these guys are lucky to be alive!