Posted on 12/18/2025 12:51:03 PM PST by Paul R.
A business jet has crashed at a regional airport in North Carolina, erupting in a large fire and killing multiple people. Authorities say the Cessna C550 crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport, about 45 miles north of Charlotte.
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....”Authorities say the Cessna C550 crashed while landing at Statesville Regional Airport, about 45 miles north of Charlotte......” from another post.....sad, very sad....as a former private pilot myself, landings can be tricky at times, and can and do cause fatalities...... prayers out for all....
Very sad. 😔
He thought he could only turn the plane left.
(too soon?)
yes, my sister in law is a pilot and I wanted to give her some info. thx
Must have been a stiff wind. He flew to the other end to land against the wind like you should.
Landing from the west with a hard wind would make the runway too short.
Might have been hit with a micro burst.
Wind a factor? (I’m thinking that because earlier we had a tornado warning with a t-storm line coming through, wind here I’d guess at 60+ mph, and a brief but thoroughly intense “cloudburst” of rain. Power has been out but came back on about 10 minutes ago.)
Sad news. When NASCAR was in its hay-day (for me anyways) he was one of my favorites.
Mods, is (was) this sort of article not considered Breaking News and if not, why not? It appears to have disappeared from the sidebar while I was hunkered down in our shelter. (Tornado warning)
What category should it be?
Thanks for any clarification.
That last is what I’m wondering too. NC in December - yeah, it definitely could happen. :-(
YouTube airline pilot Mr. J. Brown checks in with additional details:
https://youtu.be/87mpMSjFv58?si=bjIlgsC8y7zrD-Ox
Almost made it back to the airport after engine?? trouble....video of the crash aftermath here...wreckage ended up on the runway...low viz but no wind:
https://x.com/nicksortor/status/2001785934128533585?s=20
Looking at the log on FlightAware, the plane was all over the place. Started losing altitude barely a minute into the flight, speed up, slowed down, alt up, down,
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/N257BW/history/20251218/1400Z/KSVH/KSVH/tracklog
It's pretty clear that the pilot(s) were attempting to return to the airport, but were distracted by a problem.
My favorite plane joke is where two pilots are landing a plane on what appears to be a very short runway. After a tense landing where they barely stop before running off the end, one pilot exclaims, “Damn, that was a short runway!” The co-pilot, looking around, replies, “Yeah, but it was wide though!”
Thanks. Blancolirio has a good report too:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mpMSjFv58
It looks like wind should not have been a factor @ Statesville, as I wondered about above. Just HERE @ my place - it’s howlin’ again out there!
It looks like probably not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87mpMSjFv58
Unless there are some definitive audio communications, or video, we may not know what went wrong for a while.
Yep, looks like it wasn’t weather.
I believe landing, with the wife having texted her mother that they were “in trouble”.
But I also believe three other people were killed by the famous person’s “trouble”—and I haven’t seen them named or remembered at all.
The NTSB is scheduled to hold a presser at 3PM local time today.
Here’s a link to an NC TV station, WCNC, that is going to livestream the presser...
https://www.youtube.com/live/Y6WJPyQMCkM?si=a8YDHBy5WGJIzCMG
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