Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, Jun 22, 2012 (1 killed), Mo...
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on June 22, 2012 near Morgantown, West Virginia, United States with 1 fatality. Cause: The pilot's inadequate preflight...
- Date: June 22, 2012
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
- Fatalities: 1
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The pilot's inadequate preflight route planning and in-flight route and altitude selection, leading to a collision with the tower in possible instrument meteorological conditions. Misuse of the EGPWS terrain inhibit switch and the controller's failure to issue a safety alert contributed.
A King Air C90GT on a positioning flight with no filed plan descended to 3,000 ft msl and struck a communications tower near Morgantown in cloud and possible instrument conditions. The sole pilot was killed. The NTSB focused on the pilot's route and altitude planning, and on a controller who did not warn of the tower.