Beechcraft 100 King Air crash, Jan 2, 2006, Sault Sainte...
Beechcraft 100 King Air accident on January 2, 2006 near Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, United States with no fatalities. Cause: An inadequate in-flight...
- Date: January 2, 2006
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 100 King Air
- Location: Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: An inadequate in-flight decision to continue the approach, followed by loss of directional control on a contaminated runway. Contributing factors were the failure to fly to an alternate and the lack of a NOTAM on the snow and slush.
An air ambulance King Air landing at night at Sault Ste. Marie ran off the edge of the snow and slush covered runway 32 and struck a snowbank. The crew had continued the approach without an alternate, and no NOTAM had been issued about the runway contamination. The aircraft was substantially damaged and no fatalities were reported.