2014 Wichita King Air crash

2014 Wichita King Air crash
Accident summary
Date 30 October 2014
Summary Engine failure[1]
Site Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas
Crew 1
Injuries (non-fatal) 5 (on the ground; 1 critical)
Fatalities 4 (including 3 on the ground)
Missing 0
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Beechcraft King Air B200
Operator Beechcraft Corporation[2]
Registration N52SZ
Flight origin Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas
Destination Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, Mena, Arkansas

At 9:50 AM on October 30, 2014[3] Beechcraft King Air B200 N52SZ [4] carrying one crew member crashed into the FlightSafety International building at the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport in Wichita, Kansas, killing three people in the building and injuring five others, one of whom is still in critical condition. The crash initially left five people unaccounted for.[5][6][7] At the time of the crash there were more than 100 employees and visitors inside the building.[8]

Incident

The flight departed at 9:46 AM for Mena, Arkansas [9] The pilot was retired Air Traffic Controller Mark Allan Goldstein, 53, of Wichita. After takeoff, Goldstein stated "we just lost the left engine".[10] The pilot was confirmed as one of the fatalities.[11][12] 78-year-old FlightSafety instructor Jay Lee Ferguson[13] and Ukrainian American Nataliya M. Menestrina, 48, a Russian translator, were killed while in a flight simulator inside of the Citation Learning Center building.[14]

Investigation and aftermath

National Transportation Safety Board investigators arrived within twelve hours, but were initially unable to enter the building due to structural safety concerns.[15] The cockpit voice recorder was recovered from the wreckage by lowering a harnessed worker from a crane.[16] Six months after the crash, Flight Safety sued Dallas Airmotive claiming they negligently performed inspections and signed off the engines as airworthy when they were not.[17]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Four killed, others missing in plane crash near ICT". KWCH-DT TV. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  2. ↑ http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=52SZ
  3. ↑ "Four dead after plane crashes into building at Mid-Continent Airport". KSNW TV. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  4. ↑ "Crashed plane registered to Beechcraft, was bound for Arkansas". Wichita Business Journal. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  5. ↑ "Flight Records Show Deadly Plane Crash May Have Been Bound For Mena". KFSM-TV. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  6. ↑ "4 killed after plane crash near Wichita airport". CNN. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  7. ↑ "Four killed, others missing in plane crash near ICT". KWCH-DT TV. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  8. ↑ "4 dead, 5 hurt after plane crashes into building at Mid-Continent". KAKE TV. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  9. ↑ "Flight status for N52SZ". FlightExplorer.com. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  10. ↑ "Beechcraft B200 Super King Air N52SZ Aircraft accident at Wichita-Mid-Continent Airport, KS". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  11. ↑ "Pilot identified in Wichita airport crash". The Wichita Eagle. Retrieved 30 Oct 2014.
  12. ↑ "4 die when small plane hits Wichita airport building". USA Today. Retrieved 31 Oct 2014.
  13. ↑ "Plane crash victim's family issues statement". KWCH-DT TV. Retrieved 31 Oct 2014.
  14. ↑ "Family identifies woman killed in plane crash". KAKE TV. Retrieved 31 Oct 2014.
  15. ↑ "NTSB: Kansas Plane Drifted to Left Before Crashing". ABC News. Retrieved 31 Oct 2014.
  16. ↑ "Three bodies, cockpit voice recorder recovered from plane-crash site". The Wichita Eagle. Retrieved 31 Oct 2014.
  17. ↑ "Flight Safety suing company that serviced engine in Flight Safety building plane crash". KWCH-DT TV. 1 May 2015. Retrieved 4 Jun 2015.
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