Their OSU inbound flight landed at 1200 and outbound departed at 1300.
Fuel is also cheaper at OSU then FXE, at least the retail price is.
What made you think a 25,000hr (semi-retired) pilot would not refuel?

If you're suggesting fuel starvation, did you see the pictures and video of the crash scene? Lots of burning.

Approx. 100 litres of unusable fuel will burn quite nicely.

But I did not suggest this is the case. I said I hope it's not.

dash cam video of the crash is circulating. They almost pulled it off. Concrete wall did them in.

Here's the dash cam video:

https://www.threads.net/@bnonews/post/C3Q_68eAw51/

YouTuber Dan Gryder's Sunday night livestream included audio of the crew requesting 300 gallons/negative prist at OSU. That's the minimum fuel purchase to avoid fees at that FBO.

That's barely an hour. They must have tankered.

...or hope it IS that reason? Which would make you feel safer in that aircraft type? THAT, or:

"The NTSB has determined the probable cause to be sudden complete power loss from both engines for unknown reasons" ?

I guess for most of us, fuel mismanagement would be the most comforting answer...


We have absolute control over that, and most of are quite diligent about staying very far away from such circumstances.

Systemic issues such as fuel contamination would be more worrying.

Undetermined cause would be most worrying.

One hopes an errant Alaska Airlines captain wasn't riding in the cocpit.

Hop-A-Jet has the highest platinum rating with ARGUS and has been rated since 2012. So if you can believe ARGUS they're not a "fly by night" operater.

The fuel they took on at OSU was just 2025lbs, around an hour's worth as others have stated.

Once we see the FDR and CVR readouts we'll know a lot more. You would think if it was fuel starvation they would have at least declared "min fuel". And I'm assuming the 604 would give a low fuel warning.

On other aviation websites speculation is the fuel iced up. But with either fuel/oil heat exchanger or another fuel heating system I don't see how that could happen. I almost never took prist once I got off the Citation Ultra. We were supposed to take it rarely just to kill off any growths in the fuel tanks.