biz jet crash statseville north carolina ...

[oldncold]

look like a fatal accident from short clip from msn unknown what type of biz jet weather misty and look like some standing water on taxiway too

[1759]

it was a C-550 owned by Nascar driver Greg Biffle.

[atc_is_god]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/greg-biff ... -9.7021838

14 minutes in the air and very low on approach upon their return to the departure point; low enough that golfers on a nearby course were hitting the deck as they passed overhead.

Sounds like they developed a problem and then either became distracted or impaired by it during their approach and made unstabilized contact with the runway.

[atc_is_god]

ADS-B data doesn't make a lot of sense. A/C reg is N257BW

https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airc ... w#3d8fad81

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[airway]

Instrument failure?

Ceiling/vis was fairly low. Looks like they were trying to stay VFR.


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[1759]

pitot tube covers still on?

[Rooster69]

Little early for WAGs? Don’t you think?

[Canoehead]

They had a CVR on the airplane and it's been recovered. Hopefully it was serviceable and they can get data off it.

Juan Browne has put out a good video synopsis of the NTSB brief today.

[oldncold]

Latest yet unverifed info: baggage door opened after takeoff , bag went into the engine . There is also speculation that the owner / or pilots son was in left seat. it s not known if they were 550 qualified ? the investigation continues . But that baggage being ingested into an engine would explain the reason for inflight emergency and to return . It would also explain to some fashion why if they were on approach single engine flying at the single engine ref + speed if they got behind the power curve n came up short if runway - a baggage door would be increase the drag by ? they would be a test pilot at that point . .

As a current quailfied 550 capt trained in sim for different emergencies. However that wasnt one of them : it will be now on recurrent / condolences to all // thats 2 citation 550 fatals this 2025 year thats 2 too many !

[pelmet]

Latest yet unverifed info: baggage door opened after takeoff , bag went into the engine . There is also speculation that the owner / or pilots son was in left seat. it s not known if they were 550 qualified ? the investigation continues . But that baggage being ingested into an engine would explain the reason for inflight emergency and to return . It would also explain to some fashion why if they were on approach single engine flying at the single engine ref + speed if they got behind the power curve n came up short if runway - a baggage door would be increase the drag by ? they would be a test pilot at that point . .

As a current quailfied 550 capt trained in sim for different emergencies. However that wasnt one of them : it will be now on recurrent / condolences to all // thats 2 citation 550 fatals this 2025 year thats 2 too many !

I flew some twin turboprop Beeches back in the day. They had belly pods and doors on either side of the nose cone. I always checked all twelve latches just prior to closing the cabin door. Never had an issue. Also checked the cowl latches carefully on the pre-flight as they can be tricky to see when unlatched(or so I was told). One guy didn't and apparently the could came unlatched in flight with a VIP on board. Be paranoid.