Accidents
Euro-registered Bizav Aircraft Fatalities Spike in 2022
Accidents involved crashes into the sea

According to EASA’s latest annual safety review, fatalities from accidents involving member state-registered non-commercial complex (MS-NCC) business airplanes in 2022 were the highest recorded over the past decade. Ten people lost their lives in two such accidents last year versus zero fatal accidents in the previous three years. NCC airplanes are defined as any turbofan aircraft exceeding a mtow of 12,566 pounds or any multi-engine turboprop.

The two fatal accidents last year involved aircraft crashing into the sea. On Sept. 4, 2022, a privately-operated, Austrian-registered Cessna Citation II/SP departed Jerez-La Parra Airport, Spain, continued past its planned destination of Köln/Bonn (Germany) Airport, and plunged into the Baltic Sea off Latvia nearly five hours after taking off. The pilot and three passengers were killed.

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