Accidents
New Year Marred by Three Fatal Business Jet Accidents
Two accidents reportedly involved dual engine flameouts

Six people lost their lives in three business jet accidents in the first six weeks of 2024—a sixfold year-over-year increase in fatalities. According to preliminary information, two of the mishaps involved dual engine flameouts. In the same period last year, the sole-occupant pilot was killed in a singular business jet crash.

On January 20, a Russian-registered Dassault Falcon 10 on an air ambulance flight from Thailand to Moscow crash-landed on a mountain slope in Afghanistan after the crew reported first that one engine had flamed out, followed shortly by the other. Killed in the crash were the patient and her husband. The four other occupants survived.

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