Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical
Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; Flight Crew Landed in Emergency Condition; General Maintenance Action
Aircraft
We were doing an out and back to ZZZ. The flight to ZZZ from ZZZ1 was uneventful. The flight from ZZZ to ZZZ1 had a normal taxi; takeoff and level off. Shortly before descending on the arrival into ZZZ1 we got Hydro pump 3a caution message. I was the Pilot Flying and the Captain was the Pilot Monitoring so I called for the QHR and took the radio. While the Captain was running the QRH he noticed the capacity of the hydraulic 3 system was 0. I noted the same and shortly after we noticed we got the hydro 3 low caution message. We ran the QRH and took note of what systems we had lost. Since we would lose the landing gear controls and nose wheel steering we decided to advise ATC. We notified Dispatch of the issue through ACARS. The Captain informed the Flight Attendant and made an announcement on the PA to the passengers. We notified ATC that we would like ARFF and a tug on standby as we might be stuck on the runway. We knew our brakes would be degraded and nose steering would be inop so we both decided to use the longer runway of XXR. ATC vectored us down and put us in a delayed vectors pattern so we could run our checklists.  We ran the QRH and we also had to manually extend the gear. The approach was stable and it was a visual backed up by the ILS. I landed the plane safely and we managed to take the high speed taxiway off the runway. We had enough yaw control to steer us into the ramp. Steering became difficult and with the limitation of the brakes we decided to stop in the ramp and get tugged to our gate. We were safely tugged into our ramp and explained what happened to the maintenance crew. They examined the aircraft and found out that the hydraulic line has burst somewhere and all the skydrol leaked out of the system. It was our last flight of the day so we contacted the Command Center and notified them of what happened. Hydraulic system 3 lost all pressure in flight and failed.
CRJ-200 First Officer reported a hydraulic system failure and having to land the aircraft.