LR25 ON ITS LNDG FLARE ON RWY 14 AT FIT; RECEIVES A CALL FROM A C182 ON SHORT FINAL TO AN INTERSECTING RWY 20.

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LEAR 25 OPERATING VFR INTO FIT ON MAY 2001 AT XA16 EDT XB16 ZULU. THE INCIDENT INVOLVED TWO AIRCRAFT LEARJET 25 AND CESSNA 182 EACH LNDG ON SEPARATE RWYS AT APPROX THE SAME TIME - FIT FITCHBURG; MA. ASOS: CLEAR SKY'S; HIGH ALTIMETER SETTING (30.24+); WIND FROM THE S AT 7 KNOTS. 8 NM S OF ARPT BOS APCH CLEARED US FOR A VISUAL TO FIT. BOS APCH REPORTED A SINGE TFC ACFT AT OUR L POS. WE VISUALLY ACQUIRED THE TFC ACFT (EASTERLY BOUND-LOWER ALTITUDE) AND WE MANEUVERED TO THE W. THIS WAS HE ONLY TFC ACFT WE KNEW ABOUT IN THE FIT AREA. 5 -- 3 NM S OF THE ARPT (OUR LOCATION WAS W OF RWY 2/20 EXTENDED CTRLINE) WE REPORTED OUR POS AND INTENTION (IE LNDG RWY 14 AT FITCHBURG). AS WE CONFIGURED THE ACFT FOR LNDG I NOTICED WHAT APPEARED TO BE A BUILT-UP RESIDENTIAL AREA ON THE APCH END FOR RWY 14. A DECISION WAS MADE TO KEEP THE ACFT AT THE MINIMUM POWER SETTING FOR NOISE ABATEMENT [POSSIBLE FACTOR CONCERNING DECONFLICTION]. WHILE IN A R TURN; WITHIN 20 -- 30 OF THE RWY HEADING; WE RECEIVE THE FIRST RADIO CALL FROM AN ACFT ON FINAL FOR RWY 20 AT FITCHBURG. MY MIND THOUGHT BACK TO THE PREVIOUS BOS REPORTED TFC ACFT... I COULD NOT FATHOM HOW THAT ACFT COULD HAVE TRANSITIONED TO RWY 20 FOR LNDG. I CLEARED THE APCH END FOR RWY 20. I THOUGHT; MAYBE THE REPORTING ACFT MEANT RWY 02 BY MISTAKE. I IMMEDIATELY VISUALLY CLEARED RWY 02 AND THE APCH END OF RWY 02; VISUALLY I DID NOT SEE ANYTHING. I WENT BACK TO RWY 20 APCH END AND STILL COULD NOT FIND AN ACFT. BY NOW WE WERE IN THE FLAIR AND LNDG OUR ACFT. AS WE APCH THE INTERSECTION OF RWY 14/20 I AGAIN CLRED ALL OF RWY 20/20 FOR ANY TFC. I DID NOT SEE ACFT AT ALL. WE RPTED PAST THE INTERSECTION ON THE RADIO AND CLRED RWY 14 AT THE END. WHILE TAXIING IN TO THE REFUELING PAD; A REMARK WAS MADE ON THE UNICOM FREQUENCY 'I DIDN'T APPRECIATE THAT LEAR'. I STATED THAT I DID NOT WANT TO DISCUSS THIS ON THE RADIO. I MARVELED AT HOW 'SOON' THIS ACFT COULD HAVE COMPLETED A GAR; PATTERN COMPLETION AND LNDG INSIDE OF 1 MIN. I FOUND OUT AFTER THE FACT THAT THE OTHER INCIDENT ACFT HAD MODIFIED HIS PATTERN AND COMPLETED A TIGHT 360 TO LAND ON RWY 20. AFTER DISEMBARKING THE ACFT I NOTICED THE INDIVIDUAL AT HAND. I WALKED OVER TO DISCUSS THE SIT WITH HIM; ONLY TO NOTICE THAT THIS INDIVIDUAL HAD NO INTENTION ON DISCUSSING THE SIT. HE WAS MORE INTERESTED IN STATING 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM'; 'LET'S JUST PULL THE TAPES'; ETC; ETC. I LATER FOUND OUT THAT THE CESSNA 182 ACFT OWNER/OPERATOR ALONG WITH 2 NON-PILOT RIDERS WAS A MR. Z APPARENTLY HE WAS RETIRED FROM THE MA DOT/STATE DEPT - AVIATION... I LATER FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS GOING TO FILE A FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH THE FAA. THE DISPOSITION IS UNKNOWN. THE ONLY SUGGESTION I CAN MAKE IS THE PROVERBIAL HEADS UP WHEN ARR AND DEP UNCONTROLLED ARPTS. THIS IS GOING TO BE A REOCCURRING PROB UNTIL WE HAVE CONTROL TOWERS AT EVERY ARPT IN THE UNITED STATES. I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT I WAS 'TAKEN ABACK' BY MR.Z STATEMENT 'DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?' ANY STATEMENT AS SUCH IS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE AND ABSOLUTELY UNCALLED FOR IN THE AVIATION ARENA! CALLBACK CONVERSATION WITH RPTR REVEALED THE FOLLOWING INFO: RPTR CONFIRMED THAT HE AND HIS FIRST OFFICER ONLY HEARD THE ONE CALL FROM THE C182 PLT AS THEY WERE ABOUT TO LAND.