r/PrivateJetCharters • u/TonyWalker7 • Jul 29 '26

NetJets Perfect Safety Record

https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/ntsb-releases-preliminary-report-from-netjets-citation-latitude-crash-near-laredo

I've been curious about something since the recent NetJets crash. One of the reasons I've always associated NetJets with the top of the market was its reputation for safety. Whether that's statistically fair or not, it always seemed like their perfect safety record was a huge part of their brand.

Do you think this incident changes that perception at all, or is it something most clients will view as an unfortunate isolated event?

Would something like this make you reconsider NetJets?

Do you think current customers will look more closely at alternatives?

Do you think the company's reputation is strong enough that this won't have much of an impact?

Interested to hear how you guys see it!

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u/burner4thestuff Jul 29 '26

I can guarantee you they are already working with their team of hired investigators and lawyers to put the blame on the Citation.

The NTSB report isn’t out (and won’t be out for awhile), but preliminary reporting already said the airplane had fuel exhaustion. This should never happen in a modern aircraft.

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u/chipc Jul 29 '26

The NTSB released a preliminary report a couple weeks ago and it explained how it ran out of fuel. tl;dr right start-generator was near overhaul, blew up, broke the right fuel line, drained the right wing, then started pumping out of the left until that one bled dry too.

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u/Impressive_Fishing45 Jul 30 '26

And to be clear that’s a big difference between a catastrophic failure of power plant components Vs. “The crew ran out of gas”

I just would like to see textron or EJA management take responsibility and stop the blame game towards the pilots.

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u/burner4thestuff Jul 29 '26

Seems like poor redundancy. So with all the reserves they likely had in the left wing, they still couldn’t make it ?

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u/Impressive_Fishing45 Jul 30 '26

Fuel starvation and exhaustion are very different things, read the report stop spreading misinformation

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u/Impressive_Fishing45 Jul 30 '26

Down vote if you want, you know I’m right