Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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The AOPA Air Safety Institute makes a preliminary assessment of the accident that occurred on July 8, 2023, about a Cessna Citation jet that crashed short of the runway into French Valley Airport in Murrieta/Temecula, California. The accident tragically took the lives of all six occupants.

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