Thursday 13th June 2013,
Chino, San Bernardino County, California:
A Bombardier/Canadair Challenger 600 (CL-600-2B16) has impacted a hangar at Chino airport during engine testing. Three engineers were on board at the time – no injuries were sustained in either the hangar or aircraft. The hangar is substantially damaged.
The linked story contains a photograph of the jet buried in the hangar. Attached is a photograph of the complete jet from another source. Some sources are reporting the crash-aircraft is a Challenger 601, however FAA records show the aircraft as a CL-600-2B16.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_23463623/faa-investigating-jet-crash-at-chino-airport
- chino challenger 600
- (Will Lester/Inland Valley Daily Bulletin) Chino Valley firefighters inspect the damage to a Bombardier Challenger jet aircraft that crashed into the side of a airplane hangar at Encore Jet Center at the Chino Airport at 6:17p.m. Thursday evening June 13, 2013.. Maintenance personnel were working on the planes engines when it jumped it’s chalks and traveled approximately 100 yards across the tarmac into the hangar. Three maintenance workers refused medical attention.


