Vail - Chihuahua

On January 8, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Vail - Chihuahua experienced a crash involving Dassault Falcon 20, operated by Aerotaxis Dos Mil, with the event recorded near Vail Colorado.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 0 fatalities were recorded, 7 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 0.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 5, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. During taxi the airplane was observed to run over a tire chock with the left main gear tire. During a turn out of the ramp, the left main gear was observed to run over the nose gear chock that had been removed from the nose gear by the pilot during pre-flight. During the departure roll, the left main gear tire failed and the pilot elected to abort the takeoff attempt. The airplane did not stop on the remaining runway surface and departed the runway overrun area, coming to rest in snow-covered terrain. An examination of the airplane's systems revealed no anomalies.

Aircraft reference details include registration XA-PCC, MSN 159, year of manufacture 1968.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 39.6457°, -106.5879°.