Strange Challenger 600 Fatal Accident

[fholbert]

Date:	Friday 30 December 2022
Time:	c 15:00
Type:	Canadair CL-600S Challenger 600
Operator:	private
Registration:	XB-SGV
C/n / msn:	1062
First flight:	1982
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed
Aircraft fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	near Venado ( Mexico)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Unknown
Departure airport:	Celaya-Capitán Rogelio Castillo National Airport (CYW/MMCY), Mexico
Destination airport:	Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International Airport (SLW/MMIO), Mexico

Narrative:
A Canadair Challenger 600 corporate jet, XB-SGV, was destroyed after it crashed near Venado, Mexico. Both pilots were killed.
The aircraft departed Celaya Airport (CYW) on a flight to Saltillo Airport (SLW). Last contact with the flight was when it was enroute at FL260, 25 nautical miles north of San Luis Potosi.

 

[Minuteman]

That's odd. I cannot find any info about this aircraft registration. I wonder if it was a very newly transferred.

Before its Mexican registration, the aircraft was last bought by a company in Cheyenne, WY and has carried the registration N444ET since 2005.

A month ago (still on the US registration and Mode S code) it was doing some wild flying in the same region as the incident.

N444ET Flight Tracking and History 29-Nov-2022 - FlightAware

Track N444ET flight from Silao, Guanajuato to Celaya, Guanajuato

flightaware.com

 

[Skåning]

Test flight gone wrong?

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Test flight gone wrong?

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[roundout]

Drugs?

 

[fholbert]

Test flight gone wrong?

Looks like they had filed to another airport.

Departure airport:	Celaya-Capitán Rogelio Castillo National Airport (CYW/MMCY), Mexico
Destination airport:	Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International Airport (SLW/MMIO), Mexico