Cessna 680 Citation Latitude crash, Aug 15, 2019, Elizabe...
Cessna 680 Citation Latitude accident on August 15, 2019 near Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Continuation of an...
- Date: August 15, 2019
- Aircraft: Cessna 680 Citation Latitude
- Location: Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Continuation of an unstabilized approach and decision not to go around, leading to a bounced landing, gear collapse and runway excursion
A Cessna Citation Latitude carrying Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his family crashed on landing at Elizabethton after an unstabilized approach. The jet bounced, a landing gear collapsed, it ran off the runway through a fence and burned. The two pilots and three passengers survived, and the NTSB blamed the continued unstabilized approach and the lack of a go around.