Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1 crash, Jan 18, 2016 (2 killed)
Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1 accident on January 18, 2016 near Cedar Fort, Utah, United States with 2 fatalities. Cause: NTSB (WPR16FA054): The pilot's...
- Date: January 18, 2016
- Aircraft: Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1
- Location: Cedar Fort, Utah, United States
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: NTSB (WPR16FA054): The pilot's loss of control due to spatial disorientation while operating in instrument meteorological conditions, which resulted in an exceedance of the airplane's design stress limitations and a subsequent in flight breakup. Contributing was the pilot's reported inflight instrumentation anomaly, whose origin could not be determined.
On 18 January 2016 a Cessna 525 CitationJet CJ1 (N711BX) on a private IFR flight from Salt Lake City to Tucson carried a pilot and one passenger. After reporting flight instrument and flight management system problems, the pilot climbed and then entered a rapidly descending turn that became partially inverted, reaching about 36,000 ft per minute descent before the jet broke up in flight. Wreckage was spread along a debris path near Cedar Fort, Utah, and both occupants were killed.