Cessna Citation 750 accident near Egelsbach
Asia Today Cessna Citation X · CFIT (Controlled flight into terrain) on approach
From Linz to Bratislava
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA12RA047
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- Unknown
- 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 Citation X
- Aircraft type
- Cessna CITATION
- 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
- N288CX
- Operator
- Asia Today
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From LinzTo Bratislava
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The accident of a Cessna Citation 750 occurred on 1 March 2012, when the aircraft was flown into a forest in dense fog near Egelsbach in Hesse. All five occupants died in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft, which had taken off in the afternoon from Linz Airport in Austria with a two-member crew and three passengers, was on approach to Frankfurt-Egelsbach Airfield at 17:43. At 17:54, at the request of the air traffic controller, the co-pilot confirmed the change from instrument flight to visual flight, and the aircraft was then on a visual approach. At 17:55 the aircraft passed over the compulsory reporting point Yankee Two at 175 knots (approx. 325 km/h) at 1,530 feet MSL (approx. 465 m). Shortly afterwards the Enhanced Ground Proximity Warning System warned that the aircraft was flying too low. However, the pilots reacted too late, and the aircraft flew into a wooded area with its engines running, whereupon the wings were torn off, the aircraft was turned onto its back and caught fire. None of the five occupants survived the accident.
Accident investigations/cause of the accident
The BFU concluded that, among other things, the poor visibility led to the controlled flight into terrain.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Cessna Citation 750 bei Egelsbach” (revision 232169958, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Cessna Citation 750 bei Egelsbach
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 232169958 · 2023-03-25 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q109211863
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA12RA047
- Event ID
- 20120302X32033
- Case number
- DCA12RA047
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Cessna Citation 750 bei Egelsbach" (page 11967809, revision 232169958), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA12RA047 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from NTSB record DCA12RA047
- Map position
- NTSB record DCA12RA047: events decimal coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA12RA047
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Cessna Citation 750 accident near Egelsbach" and NTSB case DCA12RA047, matched by the same aircraft maker and place and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.