Airplane accidents usually cause harm beyond the grief they bring to the families of those lost, and the spate of business aircraft crashes late last year is proving collectively to be no exception. As the toll kept rising, business aviation gained ever more unfavorable prominence in the media. Last month, a Citation 560 carrying Circuit City people crashed on the approach to Pueblo, Colo., claiming the lives of all eight aboard; a second Citation carrying more employees of the same company landed safely at Pueblo minutes later.
Most of the accidents in recent months share at least one common thread: they involved prominent family or business names, which attracted media scrutiny that grew more intense as the toll mounted. The Teterboro Challenger mishap might not have involved any household names, but it did happen in the backyard of the media capital of the world, causing all that machinery to swing its gaze west across the Hudson River and focus on yet another fallen business aircraft.
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