10 Mins to Disaster, Citation Jet, Statesville USA, 18 Dec 2025 (MSFS)

[FrankPilot]

What on earth caused a Cessna Citation business jet to return to its departure airport 10 minutes later, & then crash & burn on late final, killing all on board, including a family of 4. We won’t know the answer until the NTSB investigates, but considering the possibilities provides some early useful re-inforcing of safety lessons.

 

 

[Thruster88]

Dan Gryder has a vid on why this most likely happened. In summary the aircrafts emergency return to the departure airport turn onto final approach was  with insufficient energy. To my simple high school physics mind aircraft have 3 types of energy. Kinetic, Potential, Fuel/engine. This aircraft  had, 1 low kinetic, airspeed. 2 low potential, altitude. 3 low fuel, the ability to burn it with one engine inoperative. The inevitable sink happened with flaps and gear out, high drag resulting in the this terrible accident, it will happen  every time. We can learn from this accident even if we fly simple single engine aircraft.