Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, Jun 7, 2015 (3 killed), Bel...
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on June 7, 2015 near Belo Horizonte-Pampulha-Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Minas Gerais, Brazil with 3 fatalities. Cause:...
- Date: June 7, 2015
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Belo Horizonte-Pampulha-Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Fatalities: 3
- Phase of flight: Takeoff and climb
- Cause: BAAA summary of the investigation: loss of control after the crew initiated low altitude aerobatic style maneuvers, with the aircraft stalling after a steep climb and entering an uncontrolled descent.
On 7 June 2015 a private Beechcraft C90GTi King Air carrying two pilots and one employee took off from Pampulha airport in Belo Horizonte for a farm airstrip in Setubinha. After a takeoff at full power the crew continued low over the runway, then climbed at about 90 degrees, stalled and fell into houses about 800 m from the airport. All three occupants were killed and the aircraft burned, and one person on the ground was slightly injured.