Beechcraft 200 Super King Air crash, Mar 27, 1980 (10 killed)
Beechcraft 200 Super King Air accident on March 27, 1980 near Parker, Colorado, USA, United States with 10 fatalities. Cause: Rapid accumulation of ice...
- Date: March 27, 1980
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 200 Super King Air
- Location: Parker, Colorado, USA, United States
- Fatalities: 10
- Cause: Rapid accumulation of ice on the underwing surface aft of the deicing boots, which destroyed the aircraft's capability to maintain level flight. The NTSB cited the crew's failure to obtain a current weather briefing before departure, failure to decide in time to discontinue the climb and return, and operation of an overgross aircraft at high angles of attack in severe icing.
A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air operated by Lufkin Industries crashed near Parker, Colorado, on 27 March 1980 after departing Denver Arapahoe County Airport. About nine and a half minutes after takeoff the crew declared an emergency for airframe icing and was vectored toward Denver Stapleton, but the aircraft entered a controlled descent and crashed in a prairie about 13 miles east of Arapahoe Airport. All ten occupants were killed and the aircraft was destroyed by impact and fire.