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Cessna Citation Latitude/Longitude

Is the Cessna Citation Latitude/Longitude safe? It is not ranked yet: with 1 fatal accident counted in about 1.3 million flights since 2008, its record is too short to place it among the others: its score could be anywhere from 53 to 100.

Low confidenceIn serviceUpdated 5 November 2026
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Cessna Citation Latitude/Longitude safety score: 80 out of 100, grade B (Good)

Likely range 53 to 100

1 in 3.6 millionchance of dying on a flight0.28 deaths per million boardings

How the score is built

Fatal accidents
1 in 1.3 million flights

0.75 fatal accidents per million flights. Counted: all civil flights (private, charter, corporate, cargo, training and other), accidents and unexplained losses; not counted: military, test and illegal flights, sabotage, hijackings, shoot-downs and deliberate crew acts.

Full-loss equivalents
0.17

Each counted accident adds the share of people on board who died (1 = no survivors). This is what the score is based on.

Flights flown
1.3 million

Estimated flights of all kinds. Flights of all kinds (private, charter, corporate, cargo, training and other civil use) 2016 to 3 November 2026: OpenSky 2022 flights of the type under any call sign (US military aircraft left out), re-weighted to World Bank departures country by country, carried to other years by the type's flights counted each year by FAA traffic flow management (TFMSC). Flights before 2008 are not used, like the accidents. About 421 flights per aircraft per year (fleet with a median service life of about 27 years). Uncertainty roughly ±30%.

Technology generation
Modern business jet (type first flew from 1990)

Small fleets are pulled toward the record of the other types of their generation: 0.86 full-loss equivalents per million flights over 29.3 million flights. Weight of this family's own record: 79%.

Likely range
53 to 100

The score is 90% likely to lie in this range, given how few accidents a type has and the error in the estimate of its flights.

Last fatal accident
16 June 2026

NetJets Aviation, near Laredo International Airport (LRD/KLRD), Laredo, TX, United States of America: 1 of 6 people on board died.

Hull losses
3

Civil aircraft destroyed or written off from all causes, including non-fatal accidents, cargo flights and attacks; airframes flown by air forces on military operations are left out. ASN gives no fate for some damaged aircraft, so this can be a little low (context only, not in the score).

Compared with everyday risks

One flight on the Cessna Citation Latitude/Longitude carries about the same risk of death as the activities near it below.

  • An hour's walk1 in 14 million
  • Driving 100 miles (160 km)1 in 5.9 million
  • One flight on the Cessna Citation Latitude/LongitudeThis aircraft1 in 3.6 million
  • An ordinary day: accidents and violence1 in 1 million
  • A day of skiing1 in 830,000
  • A scuba dive1 in 500,000
  • Cycling 100 miles (160 km)1 in 430,000
  • Running a marathon1 in 290,000
  • A skydive1 in 250,000
  • A general anaesthetic1 in 100,000
  • Riding a motorbike 100 miles (160 km)1 in 83,000
Chance of dying from each activity, on a log scale (longer bar = riskier). Activity figures are approximate and come from our activity pages; the ordinary day and the anaesthetic come from The Norm Chronicles (Blastland and Spiegelhalter, 2013).

Accident history

1 fatal accident since 2008 counts toward the score, with 1 people on board killed.

DateFlightKilledWhat happened
NetJets Aviation680A Citation Latitude · near Laredo International Airport (LRD/KLRD), Laredo, TX, United States of America1 killed / 6 on boardA NetJets Citation Latitude had an odd vibration, then right fuel pressure, generator and low fuel warnings. Diverting to Laredo, both engines flamed out on final and it landed on a highway, hitting light poles and a car; one passenger died. No cause has been published.Type: Engine failureASN record

The Citation Latitude is a young midsize jet, and a short record is the main fact about it. One fatal event in about 1.3 million estimated flights is a count too small to judge the aircraft by. The type is therefore not ranked yet, and its score has low confidence and a wide likely range. This page covers the Latitude and its larger sister, the Longitude.

What are the Latitude and Longitude?

Textron Aviation introduced the Latitude in 2015, and the Longitude followed as a bigger, longer-range version. About 580 have been built and about 560 are in service. The ICAO codes are C68A for the Latitude and C700 for the Longitude. The Latitude typically seats up to nine.

Buyers use them in fractional ownership fleets, charter, and by corporate flight departments. They are flown by two pilots, so the owner-flown pattern of the smaller CitationJet is not typical.

What is the fatal record?

There is one listed event, and it counts under our methodology. On 16 June 2026 a NetJets Latitude had an unusual vibration, then fuel pressure, electrical and low fuel warnings. It diverted to Laredo, Texas, lost both engines on final approach and landed on a highway. One passenger of the six on board died. The NTSB preliminary report says the captain was seriously hurt and the first officer slightly. It also says this was a Part 91 subpart K fractional ownership flight, not a charter. The investigation has not published a cause, so no finding exists yet.

We found no fatal event for the Longitude.

What do the non-fatal events add?

Because one event is not a pattern, the ASN database gives three more records.

  • 15 August 2019, JRM Air, Elizabethton, Tennessee. A Latitude bounced twice on landing and Runway excursionWhen an aircraft leaves the runway surface during take-off or landing, either off the end (an overrun) or off the side (a veer-off).More in the glossary. The pilots were uninjured and the three passengers had minor injuries, but a fire destroyed the aircraft. The NTSB cited an unstabilised approach and the decision not to go around.
  • 27 February 2026, NetJets, Miami to Washington Dulles. The crew diverted to Richmond, Virginia, and after landing the elevator was found damaged. ASN gives no further detail.
  • 14 September 2026, Misrata, Libya. A Latitude veered off the runway on landing and burned. All three on board survived. Libyan authorities have an investigation open, and no cause is published.

All three are non-fatal. They show that the type has had landing accidents and a damage event, but they do not set a trend.

What does low confidence mean?

The type has flown about 1.3 million flights since 2008, with an error of about 30%. Under our rules that is low confidence, and a type with under 3 million flights and at most one counted fatal accident gets no rank yet. One more event would change the result more than it would for an older type, so treat the grade as an estimate until more flights add up.

How do I check a charter operator?

  1. Ask for the air operator certificate, or for fractional programs the rules of the program, and check them with the authority.
  2. Ask for a recent third-party safety audit.
  3. Ask who the two pilots are and how many hours they have on the type.
  4. Ask how the operator handles a technical warning in flight, and what its diversion rules are.

Questions people ask

Is the Cessna Citation Latitude safe?

Up to 3 November 2026 our data lists one fatal event, the NetJets crash near Laredo on 16 June 2026, in about 1.3 million estimated flights. With so few flights the confidence is low, the type is not ranked yet, and its likely score range is wide.

What happened to the NetJets Citation Latitude at Laredo?

On 16 June 2026 a NetJets Latitude lost both engines on final approach after vibration, fuel pressure and low fuel warnings. It landed on a highway and one of the six on board died. The NTSB has published only a preliminary report, with no cause.

Is the Latitude flown by one pilot or two?

Two. The Latitude is a midsize two-pilot aircraft, and the Laredo flight had a captain and a first officer. That differs from smaller jets such as the CitationJet, which many owners fly alone.

How do I tell a Latitude from a Longitude?

Look at the ICAO code. The Latitude is C68A and the Longitude is C700. The Longitude is a larger, longer-range jet.

Sources

  1. 1.ASN record: NetJets Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, near Laredo, Texas, 16 June 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Aviation Safety Network
  2. 2.ASN record: JRM Air Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, Elizabethton, Tennessee, 15 August 2019 (opens in a new tab) · Aviation Safety Network
  3. 3.ASN record: Bikini Jet Charter Cessna 680A Citation Latitude, Misrata, Libya, 14 September 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Aviation Safety Network
  4. 4.ASN record: NetJets Citation Latitude, en route Miami to Washington Dulles, 27 February 2026 (opens in a new tab) · Aviation Safety Network
  5. 5.SafetyScorer exposure model: OpenSky Network flights 2022 (all operators), World Bank departures, FAA TFMSC (opens in a new tab)Flights of all kinds (private, charter, corporate, cargo, training and other civil use) 2016 to 3 November 2026: OpenSky 2022 flights of the type under any call sign (US military aircraft left out), re-weighted to World Bank departures country by country, carried to other years by the type's flights counted each year by FAA traffic flow management (TFMSC). Flights before 2008 are not used, like the accidents. About 421 flights per aircraft per year (fleet with a median service life of about 27 years). Uncertainty roughly ±30%.
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