Pacific Aerospace Ltd 750XL accident near Butler, MO
On June 14, 2026, a Pacific Aerospace Ltd 750XL (airplane) was involved in an accident near Butler, MO. 12 people died. Damage to the aircraft: destroyed.
- Date
- June 14, 2026
- Place
- Butler, MO
- Aircraft
- Pacific Aerospace Ltd 750XL · Airplane
- Injuries
- 12 fatal, 0 serious, 0 minor
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Position
- 38.291°N, 94.343°W
- NTSB ID
- 20260614203171
NTSB summary
On June 14, 2026, about 1125 central daylight time, a Pacific Aerospace Limited 750XL airplane, N221BN, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Butler, Missouri. The pilot and 11 passengers sustained fatal injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 local parachute jump (skydiving) flight. On the day of the accident, the operator had planned to conduct 8 parachute jump flights. The operator’s landing zone (LZ), a flat grass field, was located at the Butler Memorial Airport (BUM), Butler, Missouri. All the flights were planned for the parachutists to land at the LZ at BUM. At 0730, the manager of the operation obtained a fuel sample from their fuel truck that they had staged at BUM. The Jet A fuel sample was clean with no sediment or debris observed. Also at 0730, the pilot arrived at the operator’s facility, he completed the preflight of the airplane with no issues reported. He also researched and posted the various wind speeds and directions on a whiteboard in the operator’s building for the various loads (see figure 1). According to the operator, the pilot utilized ForeFlight for his preflight planning work. Figure 1. Image depicting the various wind speeds and directions on a whiteboard, for the different altitudes that the pilot researched and posted on the morning of the accident, located in the operator’s building at BUM. At 0920, the first flight of parachutists, which included the pilot and 9 passengers, departed in the airplane. They conducted their parachute jumps successfully, and the airplane landed
From Wikipedia
On June 14, 2026, a PAC P-750 XSTOL skydiving aircraft crashed in Butler, Missouri, United States, killing all 12 occupants. The aircraft was a private plane operated by Skydive Kansas City, which departed from Butler Memorial Airport. The plane crashed near a highway. The accident was the deadliest skydiving plane crash in the United States since the September 1995 crash of a Beechcraft Queen Air near West Point, Virginia.
Text from Wikipedia, “2026 Butler PAC P-750 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.
