2014 Wichita King Air crash

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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[when?]. 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 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

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  2. ↑ http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumbertxt=52SZ
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