Beechcraft 200 Super King Air crash, Mar 27, 1980 (10 killed)
Beechcraft 200 Super King Air accident on March 27, 1980 near Parker, Colorado, United States with 10 fatalities. Cause: Rapid accumulation of ice on...
- Date: March 27, 1980
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 200 Super King Air
- Location: Parker, Colorado, United States
- Fatalities: 10
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- 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.