One Dead, Several Injured in Scottsdale Airport Jet Collision; Vince Neil’s Plane Involved
A fatal accident occurred at Scottsdale Airport on Monday afternoon when a private jet owned by Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil collided with a parked jet while landing, The Associated Press reports.
One person was killed and several others were injured in the incident.
According to Vince Neil’s representative, Worrick Robinson, IV, Neil was not on board the jet at the time of the collision. The plane, carrying two pilots and two passengers, was landing at the airport when it veered off the runway and struck the parked aircraft.
Kelli Kuester, aviation planning and outreach coordinator at Scottsdale Airport, confirmed that the arriving jet veered off the runway and collided with a Gulfstream 200 jet that was parked on private property. Preliminary investigations suggest a failure of the left main landing gear of the arriving jet as a contributing factor to the collision.
Authorities reported that the arriving jet originated from Austin, Texas, carrying four people. One individual was inside the parked plane at the time of the accident.
Scottsdale Fire Department Capt. Dave Folio stated that two people injured in the collision were transported to trauma centers, and one was in stable condition at a hospital. Rescue crews are working to recover the body of the individual who died in the collision.
The runway has been closed indefinitely, Kuester said, impacting air traffic at the busy airport, a popular hub for private jets, particularly during events like the Waste Management Phoenix Open golf tournament.
This tragic event compounds a series of recent aviation disasters in the United States. The Scottsdale collision follows three major incidents within the past two weeks: a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collision near Washington D.C. that killed 67 people, a medical transportation plane crash in Philadelphia that killed seven, and a small commuter plane crash in Alaska that claimed the lives of 10 people.
