CHI08WA093 · Cessna 550
247 Jet Cessna 550 · Incident
From Palma, Majorca to Edinburgh
Event
- NTSB case
- CHI08WA093
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 550
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 550
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- G-JBIZ
- Operator
- 247 Jet
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Palma, MajorcaTo Edinburgh
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Edinburgh, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On March 14, 2008, a Cessna 550 Citation airplane, registration G-JBIZ, experienced control problems as reported by the pilot prior to landing at Edinburgh Airport, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom. The flight subsequently landed safely. The two pilots on-board were not injured. The flight originated from Palma, Majorca, Spain. The intended destination was Edinburgh Airport.
The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB). This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for or released by the government of the United Kingdom. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Department for Transport Air Accidents Investigation Branch Berkshire Copse Road Aldershot, Hampshire GU11 2HH, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1252 510300 Fax: +44 1252 376999 http://www.aaib.dft.gov.uk
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record CHI08WA093
- Event ID
- 20080404X00427
- Case number
- CHI08WA093
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 871fc5b0e7ae7782fe9c9b62dd4e413fe6fd703e0975752dd9b659e03acb8b9d; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:29:27.798Z.