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Business Aircraft Accident Reports: October 2025
Preliminary and final accident reports, October 2025
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Preliminary Reports

Conquest I Suffers Double Engine Failure

Cessna 425, July 17, 2025, Round Rock, Arizona

About 1.5 hours into an instructional flight from Denver, Colorado’s Centennial Airport (KAPA) to Phoenix, Arizona Deer Valley Airport (KDVT) at FL260, a loud noise from the left engine was followed by “an immediate and total loss of engine power.” The right engine then lost power while the pilots attempted to troubleshoot the left. They declared an emergency and attempted to restart the right engine, only to experience a complete electrical failure. Both pilots escaped without injury after a forced landing in open desert that separated the main landing gear and caused substantial damage to the left wing.