Former FLOPS Citation III Crashes in Venezuela

[On Your Six]

Maybe some of you current or former FLOPS pilots flew this bird....


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[/FONT][FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]A 1987 U.S.-registered Cessna Citation III crashed in Venezuela on February 18, but details are scant. The accident is not in the NTSB database, and a spokesman told AIN this morning that the Board had no plans to dispatch an investigator to the scene of this accident on foreign soil. Unconfirmed reports say the airplane plummeted to the ground from FL330, killing the three people on board. Beyond telling AIN yesterday that the company had sent a representative to Venezuela to assist in the investigation, a Cessna official could not comment further on the accident. The aircraft, S/N 0145 and carrying the registration N385EM, was in the Flight Options fleet until it was sold in 2006, a spokeswoman for the fractional operator confirmed. [/FONT]

 

[Frac Cap]

Because it was out of our MX control for almost 2 years, I would like to think that we wouldn't get a black eye over it. But depending on how it went down, I'm sure the Feds will want to take a closer look at our past maintenance on that aircraft.

It's ashame we don't still have that program. It was a good airplane and had decent baggage.

My thoughts and prayers are with the crews families.