Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, May 30, 2000, Goiânia
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on May 30, 2000 near Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil with no fatalities. Cause: Both engines failed from fuel exhaustion. The...
- Date: May 30, 2000
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Both engines failed from fuel exhaustion. The tanks were empty, fuel planning and monitoring were inadequate, and the fuel gauges were faulty.
A Beechcraft King Air on a government flight from a private strip at Itapuranga toward Goiania lost its right engine about 10 minutes after takeoff and its left engine about 12 minutes later, both through fuel exhaustion. The crew attempted an emergency landing in a pasture and crash-landed 13 km short of the runway. All nine occupants survived, seven of them injured and three seriously.