Beechcraft 99 Airliner crash, Aug 22, 2023 (2 killed), Li...
Beechcraft 99 Airliner accident on August 22, 2023 near Litchfield, Maine, United States with 2 fatalities. Cause: A horizontal stabilizer pitch trim...
- Date: August 22, 2023
- Aircraft: Beechcraft 99 Airliner
- Location: Litchfield, Maine, United States
- Fatalities: 2
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: A horizontal stabilizer pitch trim anomaly that was not identified in the available evidence (NTSB).
A Wiggins Airways Beechcraft 99 on a training flight pitched over from a holding pattern at 3,000 feet and hit wooded terrain nose down at over 250 knots. The instructor and the newly hired pilot died. The NTSB found a horizontal stabilizer pitch trim anomaly that was not identified.