Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, Jan 3, 2016 (2 killed), Paraty
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on January 3, 2016 near Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with 2 fatalities. Cause: CENIPA (as summarized by BAAA):...
- Date: January 3, 2016
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Paraty, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: CENIPA (as summarized by BAAA): contributing factors included the pilot's excessive self confidence and risk assessment, adverse weather, a group culture that valued landing in bad weather, and low situational awareness; the landing gear left down during the second departure may have reduced climb performance.
On 3 January 2016 a Beechcraft C90GTi King Air (PP LMM) operated by Shibata Supermercados left Campo de Marte on a positioning flight to Paraty with two pilots. Instrument weather on the descent and adverse conditions forced repeated landing attempts, and on final the aircraft struck trees in hilly terrain a few km short of the runway. Both pilots were killed and the aircraft was destroyed, and CENIPA cited excessive self confidence, low situational awareness and the landing gear left extended during a second departure.