- Date
- September 17, 2025, 17:42 local (Sep 18, 2025, 00:42 UTC)
- Place
- San Diego, CA
- Injuries
- 6 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Takeoff
- Aircraft
- N769XJCessna 750
- Defining event
- Takeoff-rejected takeoff: Landing gear collapse
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Investigation ongoing
- Investigation class
- Class 3
- NTSB office
- Western Pacific Region
- Parties
- FAA
- Case key
- 201044
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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Preliminary report
What NTSB knew early in the investigation. It may change in the final report.
On September 17, 2025, about 1742 Pacific daylight time, a Cessna 750, N769XJ, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident at San Diego International Airport (SAN), San Diego, California. The two pilots and four passengers sustained no injuries. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 135 commuter flight. The pilot reported that during the takeoff roll, he felt an intense vibration coming from the nosewheel as the airplane accelerated through 100 knots, so he elected to abort the takeoff. Subsequently, during the abort, the nose landing gear collapsed, and the nose of the airplane settled onto the runway. When the airplane came to a stop on the runway, the pilots executed an emergency shutdown and safely evacuated all occupants from the airplane. Post accident examination revealed that the airplane’s fuselage sustained substantial damage. The airplane was recovered and retained for further examination.
Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N769XJ
- Reported as
- Cessna 750
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 750-0269
- Built
- 2007
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Other work use · Part 135
- Operator
- Bell Air
- Registered owner
- N560mc LLC
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Normal
- Destination
- CMH · Columbus, OH
- Flight plan
- IFR
- Airport
- SAN · San Diego International Airport, runway 27, 9,401 × 200 ft, asphalt
- Equipment
- Auto-pilot, Electronic multifunction display, Electronic primary flight display
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 320° at 5 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 25,000 ft broken
- Temperature
- 75 °F, dew point 63 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.89 inHg
- Observed at
- KSAN
- METAR
- METAR KSAN 170151Z 32005KT 10SM FEW050 SCT150 BKN250 24/17 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP122 T02440167