Corporate Jet Accident Categories
The Foundation’s analysis of corporate jet accident data focused on five categories, which accounted for approximately 70 percent of the accidents during the six-year period under review.
Corporate Jet Accidents by Type, 2017–2022 Runway Excursions: Runway excursions were, by far, the most common accident type in corporate jet operations in 2022 and throughout the period under review. In 2022, 17 of the 35 accidents involved runway excursions. One of the 17 was a fatal accident. In October, a Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet G2 suffered an excursion after a rejected takeoff at Santa Marta-Simón Bolívar Airport in Colombia. One person on the ground suffered fatal injuries.
During the 2017–2021 period, five of the 62 runway excursion accidents recorded were fatal accidents, resulting in 17 fatalities among passengers and crew. The worst of the five fatal accidents occurred on March 29, 2020, when an Israel Aerospace Industries 1124A Westwind II crashed following an aborted takeoff from Runway 24 at Manila-Ninoy Aquino International Air- port, Philippines, and burst into flames. The eight passengers and crew were killed.
Runway excursions are far more prevalent after landing than during the takeoff phase. Of the 79 corporate jet runway excursions that occurred from 2017 through 2022, 66 occurred during landing and 13 during takeoff.
Loss of Control (LOC): After runway excursions, LOC accidents usually are the most common accident type. There were only two corporate jet LOC accidents in 2022, but in the five-year 2017–2021 period, there were 28, or an average of 5.6 per year. Both LOC accidents last year were fatal and resulted in a total of 10 fatalities.
In the five-year 2017–2021 period, there were 28 LOC accidents, of which 20 were fatal, with 90 fatalities among passengers and crew. The worst year for fatalities was 2021, when five accidents resulted in 27 fatalities. The worst fatal LOC accident was the Challenger 601 crash cited earlier in this report.
Aerodynamic stall remains a leading cause of LOC accidents, and about 25 percent of the accidents involved stalls. More specifically, a stall during a circling approach remains a significant factor in LOC accidents. Another contributor is spatial disorientation.
Gear-Up/Collapse Landing: There were two gear-up/gear collapse landing accidents in 2022, neither of which was fatal. In the previous five-year period, there were 11 gear-up/collapse landing accidents, or an average of 2.2 per year. None of the accidents during the period was fatal.
In two of the accidents during the five-year period, the crew did not lower the landing gear, and in two other events, a part failed, causing the gear to collapse. In two additional cases, improper maintenance had been performed on the gear, and one case involved a runway excursion and gear collapse following a rejected takeoff.
Ground Damage: There was one ground damage accident in 2022. A taxiing Bombardier Challenger 300 struck the rudder of a Pilatus PC-12. In the previous five years, there were nine accidents, one of which was fatal.
Four of the nine events in 2017–2021 involved aircraft-to-aircraft collisions, while others involved collisions with airport infrastructure or ground vehicles.
Turbulence: There were no reported turbulence accidents in 2022, and just four were recorded in the previous five years. Given that corporate jets generally carry fewer passengers and often are not staffed by flight attendants, the likelihood of a person on board an aircraft being seriously injured because of a turbulence encounter is far less than in airliner operations.
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