Summary Engine failure Survivors 0 Survivor 0 | Missing 0 Date 30 October 2014 Crew count 1 | |
Site Wichita Mid-Continent Airport, Wichita, Kansas Injuries (non-fatal) 5 (on the ground; 1 critical) Aircraft type Beechcraft King Air B200 Location Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport, Wichita, Kansas, United States Total fatalities 4 (including 3 on the ground) Location Wichita Dwight D. Eisenhower National Airport Similar 2000 Australia Beechcra, Skyway Enterprises Flight 7101, 2014 Lao People's Liberatio, 2014 Santos Cessna C, 2014 SOCATA TBM crash | ||
At 9:50 a.m. on October 30, 2014, a Beechcraft King Air B200 N52SZ 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. At the time of the crash, there were more than 100 employees and visitors inside the building.
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Incident
The flight departed at 9:46 a.m. for Mena, Arkansas The pilot was retired Air Traffic Controller Mark Allan Goldstein, 53, of Wichita. After takeoff, Goldstein stated "we just lost the left engine". The pilot was confirmed as one of the fatalities. 78-year-old FlightSafety instructor Jay Lee Ferguson and Ukrainian American Nataliya M. Menestrina, 48, a Russian translator, were killed while in a flight simulator inside the Citation Learning Center building.
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. The cockpit voice recorder was recovered from the wreckage by lowering a harnessed worker from a crane. 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.