9 February 2024 - Hop-A-Jet 823

Hop-A-Jet Flight 823 was a chartered U.S. domestic flight operated by Hop-A-Jet from Ohio State University Airport in Columbus, Ohio, to Naples Airport in Naples, Florida. Shortly before landing on February 9, 2024, the pilots reported a dual engine failure and attempted to land on Interstate 75. The aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 604, was destroyed and consumed by a post-crash fire. Both pilots were killed, but the two passengers and the sole flight attendant on board survived. 

The flight attendant was able to help the passengers evacuate through the baggage compartment door in the tail section of the airplane. The driver of the pickup truck, a 48-year-old Naples man, suffered minor injuries and was taken to a local hospital. The aircraft was destroyed by the post-crash fire. 

Flight data recorder timeline 

After a preliminary review of the data recovered from the airplane's flight data recorder, the NTSB provided the following timeline of key events: 

Times in EST, February 9, 2024 

• 3:08 p.m. – The Naples Airport tower controller cleared the flight to land on runway 23. According to Automatic Dependent Surveillance–Broadcast (ADS–B) track data, the airplane was about 6.5 miles north of the airport at an altitude of about 2,000 feet and traveling at 166 knots. 

• 3:09:33 p.m. – "L ENGINE OIL PRESSURE" master warning activates, indicating the oil pressure in the left engine is critically low. 

• 3:09:34 p.m. – "R ENGINE OIL PRESSURE" master warning activates, indicating the oil pressure in the right engine is critically low. The system alerted pilots of these two warnings with the illumination of a red "Master Warning" light, a red message on the engine-indicating and crew-alerting system and a triple chime voice advisory ("Engine oil"). 

• 3:09:40 p.m. – "ENGINE" master warning activates, indicating an abnormal condition in the fan rotor, compressor rotor, or inter-turbine temperature. 

• 3:10:05 p.m. – The crew radios the tower controller, "…lost both engines… emergency… making an emergency landing." The tower controller acknowledged the call and cleared the airplane to land. The aircraft was at an altitude of about 1,000 feet and traveling at 122 knots. 

• 3:10:12 p.m. – The crew replies to the tower controller, "We are cleared to land but we are not going to make the runway… ah… we have lost both engines." The aircraft was at an altitude of about 900 feet and traveling at 115 knots. There were no further transmissions from the flight crew. 

• 3:10:47 p.m. – ADS–B track data ends directly over Interstate 75. 

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