Cessna CE700 First Officer reported safely diverting to an alternate airport after receiving a CAS message for flight spoiler failures.

Date: 2024-07 · Aircraft: Citation Longitude (C700) · Phase: approach

Anomalies: aircraft-equipment-problem-critical|inflight-event-encounter-weather-turbulence

Synopsis

Cessna CE700 First Officer reported safely diverting to an alternate airport after receiving a CAS message for flight spoiler failures.

Narrative

While flying Aircraft X From ZZZ2 to ZZZ1 we experienced an aircraft systems failure during our initial approach into ZZZ1. The flight crew set up for the LOC DME-E Approach (we were later cleared for and accepted the visual approach) and had fully configured for our descent into the airport. The last 20 minutes of the flight was very turbulent with strong winds being blown across the mountains during our descent. The Captain; who was the pilot flying at the time; was making use of spoilers to help the airplane with its descent. Then with an additional application of the spoilers; we received a CAS message on our avionics. The message stated that the outboard and middle spoilers had experienced a failure. After a brief discussion about whether we should continue the approach or abort it; we ended up flying the missed approach. Then we consulted the QRH and performed the appropriate actions necessary. The checklist stated that we were not to land with strong crosswinds or any tailwind component; which precluded any further attempts to land at ZZZ1 since there was a tailwind component there at the time. We also had reason to believe that we had lost control of the roll spoilers and that our roll control was only available by means of the ailerons. We finished up the checklist and decided to divert to ZZZ. There; we set up for the approach again and worked as a team to ensure that the approach would be done safely with the auto throttles turned off as referenced in our checklist procedure. We landed in ZZZ with no further incident and reported to ATC that we made it to the ground safely. Once we were on the ground; we deplaned the passengers and contacted our company to coordinate our next moves.

Source: NASA Aviation Safety Reporting System (public domain). Reports are voluntary submissions and are not verified by NASA.