Beechcraft 90 King Air crash, Apr 19, 2016 (2 killed), Sl...
Beechcraft 90 King Air accident on April 19, 2016 near Slidell, Louisiana, United States with 2 fatalities. Cause: NTSB (summary via BAAA): an unstable...
- Date: April 19, 2016
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 90 King Air
- Location: Slidell, Louisiana, United States
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: NTSB (summary via BAAA): an unstable approach in black hole conditions, with the pilot flying well below a safe glidepath because of inadequate altimeter crosschecks; the copilot did not monitor the approach.
On 19 April 2016 a St Tammany Parish Mosquito Abatement District King Air A90 (N7MC) returning from a spraying flight made a night visual approach to Slidell. It overshot the extended runway centerline on the left base leg, struck 80 foot power transmission towers and then the ground. Both pilots were killed and the aircraft was destroyed.