Another Citation Crash and Burn with No Fatalities
For
the fourth time in six weeks, passengers and crew evacuated safely from a Cessna
Citation following a crash and before fire consumed their aircraft. The latest
accident occurred on Tuesday and involved a Citation Excel that crashed while on
final approach to Aligarh Airport, India. It reportedly contacted high tension
wires and came down in the grass between the runway and perimeter fence. A fire
destroyed the jet, but all six occupants evacuated safely.
Just
six days earlier, on August 21, a Citation Excel suffered a runway excursion
after an aborted takeoff at Oroville Airport, California. All 10 occupants
evacuated the aircraft before fire engulfed the airplane.
On
August 15, a Citation Latitude overran the runway and caught
fire after landing at Elizabethton Municipal Airport near Bristol, Tennessee.
Five persons on board, including retired Nascar driver Dale Earnhardt Jr., his
wife, and infant daughter escaped without serious injuries. The aircraft was
destroyed by the fire.
Escaping
without serious injury after crash landing his 1981
Citation II on July 17 at Nevada’s Mesquite Airport, the sole-occupant pilot was
subsequently arrested on one count of operating an aircraft under the influence
of alcohol. The aircraft was totaled from the post-crash fire. Meanwhile, the
pilot is out of jail and his next scheduled court appearance is on November
13.
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