WASHINGTON, D.C. (WWSB) – The crash of a business jet trying to land on I-75 in Naples in 2024 was caused by corrosion that caused both engines to stall, the National Transportation Safety Board has concluded.
In a final report on the crash released Thursday, investigators said high levels of corrosion in high-pressure compressors caused the engines to stop producing thrust as the aircraft was slowing for landing at Naples Municipal Airport.
The stalls happened at perhaps the worst possible time, when the aircraft was a low altitude and slowing. The corrosion likely caused both engines to stall “resulting in near-simultaneous, sub-idle rotating compressor stalls and a subsequent loss of thrust in both engines, which was unrecoverable at the low altitude,” the report said…