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| Date: | Thursday 16 October 2025 |
| Time: | c. 17:27 LT |
| Type: |  Hawker 800XP |
| Owner/operator: | Aereo Lineas del Centro SA |
| Registration: | XA-JMR |
| MSN: | 258530 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Bath, MI -
 United States of America
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | Battle Creek-WK Kellogg Regional Airport, MI (BTL/KBTL) |
| Battle Creek-WK Kellogg Regional Airport, MI (BTL/KBTL) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
A Mexican registered Hawker 800XP, XA-JMR, was destroyed when it impacted terrain near Bath, Michigan.
The three occupants perished.
XA-JMR had arrived at BTL on 25 March 2025. The accident was the first flight since then.
Preliminary information suggests the aircraft was engaged in a stall test following maintenance.
ADS-B data and a LiveATC.net recording to Cleveland Center ATC indicated that the airplane departed Battle Creek Regional Airport, MI (BTL) at 21:08 UTC. It climbed to the FMS selected altitude of 15,000 feet.
The flight crew requested a block altitude from 14,000 to 16,000 feet for testing.
At 21:27 UTC, after passing Lansing, Michigan, the aircraft began to turn left an descended about 600 feet.
It climbed back up to 15,000 feet until entering a high rate of descent seconds later.
The aircraft impacted terrain about one minute later.
A radio could can be heard on the Cleveland Center frequency indicating they were in a stall.
Sources:
https://cedarnews.net/newstasks/michigan-state-police-respond-to-small-plane-crash-in-bath-township/883922/
https://www.wlns.com/news/police-respond-to-plane-crash-in-bath-township/
https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-news/lansing-michigan-plane-crash-small-aircraft-crashes-in-bath-township-3-feared-dead-article-153012472
https://audio.com/drew-bowen-1/audio/kfnt2-zob12-lansing-low-oct-16-2025-2100z-1
https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/XAJMR/history/20251016/2010Z/KBTL/KBTL
https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=0d06bf&lat=42.532&lon=-84.904&zoom=10.3&showTrace=2025-10-16&trackLabels
https://cdn.jetphotos.com/full/5/29041_1614500763.jpg (photo)
History of this aircraft
Ex N76LV, C-FBBF, N890SP
Location
Media:
#CirculaEnRedes?| Reportan que una aeronave Hawker 800XP con matrícula mexicana XA-JMR se deslomó en Bath, Michigan con saldo de 3 fallecidos; el avión privado bimotor está registrado en México.https://t.co/XgVUDpMfck pic.twitter.com/6WyWCJWagk
— Tabasco HOY (@TabascoHOY) October 17, 2025
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-Oct-2025 22:59 | Captain Adam | Added |
| 16-Oct-2025 23:50 | RobertMB | Updated [Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Nature, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Oct-2025 06:10 | ASN | Updated [Nature, Departure airport, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Oct-2025 06:16 | ASN | Updated [Nature, Destination airport, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
| 17-Oct-2025 06:24 | ASN | Updated [Source, Embed code, Narrative, ] |
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