Below Freezing Temps and Snowing at Time of Embraer Phenom 300 Fatal Accident in Provo

Below Freezing and Snowing at Time of Phenom 300 Fatal Crash

The temperature was below freezing and snow was falling when a Phenom 300 crashed on takeoff from Utah's Provo Municipal Airport on January 2.

By Gordon Gilbert • Contributor - Accidents and Regulations

January 26, 2023

According to the NTSB’s preliminary report released today, it was below freezing and snow was falling when an Embraer Phenom 300 crashed while taking off from Utah's Provo Municipal Airport at 11:35 a.m. on January 2. The pilot was killed and the three passengers were injured. The light twinjet was on a planned Part 91 personal flight to Chino, California.

A witness said he watched the airplane be towed from a hangar and then fueled. He estimated that the pilot started the engines about 11:10 or 11:15 a.m., “around the same time light snow began to fall.” When he started fueling, the fueler stated the pilot mentioned that “they were trying to get out before the weather.” The fueler added that while he was fueling, he remembered seeing unfrozen water droplets on the wings. At the time of the accident, the temperature/dewpoint were matched at -1 degrees C and snowfall was light to medium intensity.

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