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
Fatalities 4 (including 3 on the ground)
Injuries (non-fatal) 5 (on the ground; 1 critical)
Missing 0
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Beechcraft King Air B200
Operator Gilleland Aviation[2]
Registration N52SZ
Flight origin Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas
Destination Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, Mena, Arkansas

At 9:50 a.m. on October 30, 2014,[3] a 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. 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 a.m. 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 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. Archived from the original on 30 October 2014. 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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