Falcon 50 N200SG Skids Off a Las Vegas Runway on Departure, Closing Two Runways and Delaying Hundreds of Flights

A Dassault Falcon 50 business jet, registration N200SG according to flight-tracking data, skidded off runway 1L at Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport at about 11 a.m. on Sunday, October 18, 2026. The airport said the general aviation aircraft left the runway “upon departure” and made contact with the perimeter fence.

“There are no known injuries at this time,” the airport said in a post on X. It closed both of its north-south runways, 1L and 1R, for inspection and warned travelers to expect delays.

What is known about the jet

The airport has not named the aircraft. Simple Flying, citing flight-tracking information, identified it as the Falcon 50 N200SG and reported that the crew aborted the takeoff before the jet veered off the runway.

The same report said the jet had arrived in Las Vegas from Seattle-Tacoma International earlier in the day and was due to continue to Toronto Pearson. Why the takeoff was rejected has not been established.

The FAA’s aircraft registry lists N200SG as a Dassault-Breguet Falcon 50, serial number 239, powered by Garrett TFE731 series turbofans. It is registered to Jacks Wings LLC of Boca Raton, Florida, and its airworthiness date is July 15, 1993.

The registry does not say who was flying the jet on Sunday, and no operator has commented. The number of people on board has not been released.

The Falcon 50 is Dassault’s three-engine business jet, and the registry lists N200SG as the original model rather than the later Falcon 50EX. Runway 1L, where the airport said it left the pavement, is the western of the two parallel north-south runways.

How the closure rippled through LAS

The FAA issued a ground stop for Harry Reid on Sunday afternoon, FOX5 Las Vegas reported, citing airport officials. A ground stop holds flights bound for an airport at their departure gates until it can take them.

By 2:13 p.m. local time, the FAA’s National Airspace System status page had moved LAS to a ground delay program for an “aircraft emergency.” Delays averaged 1 hour and 10 minutes, with a maximum of 3 hours and 15 minutes.

FOX5 put the number of delayed flights at about 330, from FlightAware data. Neither runway had been reported as reopened at the time of writing.

Losing 1L and 1R leaves Harry Reid on its east-west pair, 8L/26R and 8R/26L, for every arrival and departure. The two closed runways are each about 9,770 feet (2,980 m) long, according to FAA airport data, against 14,835 feet (4,522 m) for 8L/26R.

Running a busy hub on two runways instead of four reduces how many flights controllers can accept each hour. That is when the FAA meters inbound traffic at origin airports, the tool explained in our guide to ground stops and flow control.

Why a rejected takeoff can end off the pavement

Before every takeoff, a jet crew calculates a decision speed, V1. Below it, they can abort and stop on the remaining runway; above it, they are committed to flying.

Those calculations assume the brakes, tires and reverse thrust work as planned. A late abort, a tire or brake failure, or a directional control problem can push a jet off the side or the end of the runway even when the decision was correct.

Which of those, if any, applied to N200SG is not known. The FAA had not posted a statement on the event on its accident and incident page at the time of writing.

The National Transportation Safety Board, not the FAA, decides whether the damage makes the event an accident it will investigate. It took on a September 1 Citation Excel overrun at Porterville, California, where the jet ended up on a street beyond the airport fence.

Recent incidents at Harry Reid

On August 28, a Westwind 24 blew a tire and veered off the runway while taxiing after landing at Harry Reid at about 1:45 a.m., the FAA said. Six people were on board.

On October 9, Southwest flight WN759 was towed back to its gate after smoke at its landing gear as the 737 taxied out. That jet never reached the runway.