A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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A Cessna Citation Mustang was destroyed when it crashed in Germany on Thursday night, killing the two crewmembers and the lone passenger. According to reports, the light twinjet, registered as OE-FWD, was being operated by Skytaxi Luftfahrt when it went down in a snowstorm near the end of a charter flight from Egelsbach Airport.

 


The aircraft was on approach to Friedrichshafen Airport when it crashed in a rural wooded area in Sieberatsreute, 9.32 miles/15 km from the runway. A post-crash fire destroyed the aircraft.

 


Based in Bregenz, Austria, Skytaxi was founded in 2007 to provide jet service for the regions around Lake Constance in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein. Company CEO, managing director and chief pilot Adi Anderst was the captain on the accident flight. Skytaxi operated a pair of Mustangs. The incident is the first fatal accident for the type, as well as the first major accident of a Citation Mustang in a decade.

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