WPR25LA045 · Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16
Netjets Sales Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16 · Accident: fire/smoke (non-impact) while taxiing
From Jackson Hole Airport (JAC) to Norfolk International Airport (ORF)
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Event
- NTSB case
- WPR25LA045
- 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
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Ongoing
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Bombardier Inc CL-600-2B16
- Aircraft type
- Bombardier CL-600
- 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
- N247QS
- Operator
- Netjets Sales
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Jackson Hole Airport (JAC), Jackson, WYTo Norfolk International Airport (ORF), Norfolk, VA
- 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
- Part 91 Subpart K: Fractional
- 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
- Taxi
- 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
- Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On November 17, 2024, about 0945 mountain standard time, a Bombardier Inc. CL-600-2B16 (Challenger 650), N247QS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Jackson, Wyoming. The 2 pilots and 9 passengers were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91K business flight. According to the Captain, they had a load miscalculation and needed to burn about 500 lbs of excess fuel prior to takeoff. He notified the primary passenger that they would have to stop at the end of the runway to burn the excess fuel to remain under their maximum safe departure weight. While taxiing, the captain told his first officer that he was going to add power and use the brakes to burn off excess fuel, so they don’t inconvenience the passengers and make them wait. He reported that he applied about 65% power as they taxied and about 70% power at the approach end of runway 19. While holding short of runway 19, the captain initially set the parking brake, however, released the parking brake after he received a takeoff configuration warning. The captain advanced the power again while holding the brakes for about 10 to 15 minutes. After they received their takeoff clearance, the captain taxied onto runway 19 and then transferred the controls to the first officer for the takeoff. The first officer held the brakes for a static takeoff. After he applied takeoff power, he released the brakes and the airplane began to accelerate. As the airspeed increased to about 25 to 30kts, the crew heard a rumble on the left side of the airplane. The captain elected to abort the takeoff, and the first officer performed the abort procedure while the captain notified the air traffic control tower (ATCT) controller. The ATCT controller informed the crew that their left wheel appeared to be on fire. After the airplane came to a stop on an adjacent taxiway, the flight crew and passengers evacuated without injury. Photographs of the airplane showed substantial damage to the auxiliary spar and lower wing skin.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record WPR25LA045
- Event ID
- 20241122195537
- Case number
- WPR25LA045
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: investigation status, coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 85c37873027211b50445fe1290ad5d4dc5e614f49b9cfb38c0751d74086b693c; retrieved 2026-09-16T19:29:49.919Z.