Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, Aug 3, 2008, Pitt Meadows
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on August 3, 2008 near Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada with no fatalities. Cause: Mechanical failure of the left...
- Date: August 3, 2008
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Pitt Meadows, British Columbia, Canada
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Mechanical failure of the left engine fuel pump drive splines after a TBO overrun and missed inspections. The horizontal engine instrument layout and lack of recent emergency training led the pilot to shut down the wrong engine.
A King Air 90 carrying a pilot and seven parachutists on a local skydiving flight from Pitt Meadows lost power in one engine after takeoff. The pilot shut down the wrong engine, leaving the aircraft with a dual-engine power loss. He made a forced landing in a cranberry field about 400 m short of the airport, where the aircraft struck a berm, bounced and spun 180 degrees; four parachutists were seriously injured.