Cessna S550 accident near San Diego, CA
On May 22, 2025, a Cessna S550 (airplane) was involved in an accident near San Diego, CA. 6 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- May 22, 2025
- Place
- San Diego, CA
- Aircraft
- Cessna S550 · Airplane
- Injuries
- 6 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 32.803°N, 117.106°W
- NTSB ID
- 20250522200192
NTSB summary
On May 22, 2025, at 0347 Pacific daylight time (PDT), a Cessna Citation S550, N666DS, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near San Diego, California. The pilot and five passengers were fatally injured. Eight people on the ground received minor injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The airplane departed Teterboro Airport (TEB), Teterboro, New Jersey, on May 21, about 2309 eastern daylight time (2009 PDT) and arrived at Colonel James Jabara Airport (AAO), Wichita, Kansas, about 0148 central daylight time (2348 PDT). The airplane was refueled with 548 gallons of Jet-A fuel before departing about 0236 central daylight time (0036 PDT) with a destination of Montgomery-Gibbs Executive Airport (MYF), San Diego, California. MYF is a tower-controlled airport between the hours of 0700 and 1800 and operates as an uncontrolled airport during the remaining hours of the day. As the airplane neared MYF, the pilot checked in on frequency with the Southern California Terminal Radar Approach Control (SOCAL TRACON) controller while at 17,000 ft mean sea level (msl). The controller informed the pilot that the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS) at MYF was out of service and the pilot acknowledged that he was aware of that. The controller asked the pilot what approach he would like to fly into MYF and the pilot responded that he would like to fly the RNAV (GPS) instrument approach to runway 28R. The pilot did not specify whether he would fly the localizer performance with vertical guidance (LPV) approach or the
From Wikipedia
On May 22, 2025, a Cessna Citation II crashed in the Murphy Canyon neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States, killing all six people aboard the aircraft and injuring at least eight others on the ground. Ten homes were damaged in the crash, one of which was completely destroyed.
Text from Wikipedia, “2025 San Diego Cessna Citation II crash”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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Source: NTSB aviation accident database (US government, public domain). Findings may be preliminary or later revised by the NTSB. Not a complete global record.
