JSX Flight XE281 Leaves the Runway After Landing at Dallas Love Field, With No Injuries

JSX XE281, arriving from Houston Hobby, left the runway after landing at Dallas Love Field on Sunday afternoon, November 1, 2026. The airport said no one was hurt and that passengers were taken safely off the airfield.

Fox 4 identified the flight and reported that the jet ended up in the grass with its landing gear intact. It said Dallas Fire-Rescue was dispatched around 2:52 p.m. for an Alert 3, an airport emergency response.

What the airport and JSX have said

The airport’s first post, at about 3:30 p.m. CST, said first responders were on scene and Runway 13L was closed. Flights kept arriving and departing on the parallel Runway 13R, CBS Texas reported.

The two runways are 7,752 feet and 8,800 feet long, with 13L the shorter one, so the airport kept its longer runway through the closure.

A final update just after 7 p.m. CST called the event a runway excursion and said crews removed the aircraft after FAA approval. The airport then announced that 13L had reopened and operations were back to normal, about four hours after the fire department’s dispatch.

JSX said in the statement Fox 4 carried: “All customers are safe and accounted for, with no reported injuries, and have since departed the airport.” The company added that it is cooperating with the authorities.

Fox 4 reported that the FAA and NTSB are involved in the investigation. A check of the NTSB’s news account on Monday morning, November 2, found no post about the Love Field event, and CBS Texas reported that the cause had not been released.

The aircraft and the conditions

Flightradar24’s flight history lists XE281 that day as Embraer ERJ-145 N917JX, landing at 20:52 UTC. That is 2:52 p.m. CST, the same minute as the fire department’s reported dispatch, but no official statement we read names the tail number.

The FAA registry shows N917JX as a 2002 EMB-145LR registered to Delux Public Charter LLC of Dallas. The NTSB has identified Delux, doing business as JSX Air, as the operator of an earlier JSX flight it investigated.

The airport’s final update named no airline and described a “general aviation aircraft,” though JSX sells individual seats to the public. The NTSB classed that earlier JSX trip as a nonscheduled passenger flight under Part 135, the FAA’s rules for air taxi and commuter operators.

Love Field’s routine weather report at 2:53 p.m. gave a wind from 140 degrees at 8 knots, visibility of 10 miles and no precipitation. A single observation neither points to nor rules out a cause.

What a runway excursion is, and why the label matters

A runway excursion is the catch-all term for an aircraft leaving the runway surface, and SKYbrary splits it into two kinds. An overrun goes off the far end, while a veer-off leaves by the side, which fits the reports of a jet in the grass, though no account we read says where it left the pavement.

The term also covers departures, as when a Falcon 50 skidded off a Las Vegas runway on October 18.

Whether this one counts as an accident or an incident depends on what inspectors find. Under NTSB rules, an accident needs a death, a serious injury or substantial damage, meaning damage to strength, performance or handling that would normally call for major repair.

Those same rules exclude damage to landing gear, wheels, tires, flaps and brakes from “substantial damage.” So intact gear does not settle the question either way: what would matter is any structural harm elsewhere, and no source we read describes any.

That may help explain why the jet stayed in place for hours. Federal rules say the wreckage from a reportable event generally may not be moved until the NTSB takes custody or releases it, except to rescue people, prevent further damage or protect the public.

Fox 4 reported that officials were inspecting the jet while they awaited FAA and NTSB approval to move it. Passengers had already been escorted off by then.

An earlier JSX case closed only weeks ago

Sunday’s event came about six weeks after the NTSB published its final report on JSX Flight 284, an EMB-145LR that collapsed its left main gear landing at Houston Hobby on May 3, 2024. It had flown in from Love Field, the reverse of XE281’s route.

That jet, N942JX, touched down at 3.9 g, and the report lists one minor injury among the 24 people aboard. The probable cause was the captain’s unintentional use of nose-down pitch trim on final approach, which limited elevator authority and led to the hard landing.

Nothing we found links the two events, and the flight history shows a different airframe at a different airport. The 2024 case does show how long the full answer can take: the final report arrived more than two years after the landing.