Beechcraft 200 Super King Air crash, Nov 9, 2009, Greenvi...
Beechcraft 200 Super King Air accident on November 9, 2009 near Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States with no fatalities. Cause: Fuel...
- Date: November 9, 2009
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 200 Super King Air
- Location: Greenville-Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: Fuel exhaustion, because the pilot did not visually verify the fuel quantity before flight and relied on the FMS fuel totalizer instead of the gauges.
A Super King Air on a maintenance test flight from Greenville-Spartanburg lost power on both engines on final approach and crashed short of the runway. The pilot had relied on the flight management system fuel totalizer rather than the fuel gauges, and the tanks were far lower than he assumed. Fuel was exhausted before the aircraft reached the runway.