Air midwest crashes into hangar @ CLT??

[350DRIVER]

God Bless them-

 

[Mu2Driver]

anybody think that door blew open when they put the bleeds on????
It was a cold day out so they plane should have had enough performance if they lost an engine...who knows...god bless them

 

[350DRIVER]

any names on the crew or specifics.?

eyewitness just said "plane veared off immediately to the left right after t-o-, shot up like the space shuttle, then hit and went into the building on on its back".

two people said that it sounded like they must have lost an engine right at or on rotation-

 

[LA Confidential]

CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (CNN) -- An Air Midwest commuter plane with 19 people on board crashed on takeoff into a hangar Wednesday at the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport in North Carolina.

Plumes of gray smoke could be seen rising from a hangar.

The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was Air Midwest Flight 5481 and was on its way to the Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport in South Carolina.

There was no immediate word on injuries or deaths.

The plane struck the side of the hangar.

A wall of the hangar was covered with black smoke.

The FAA said the aircraft is a Beech 1900, a turboprop aircraft. The airlines' Web site says it operates as US Airways Express.

The crash comes after a year in which there were no commercial airline fatalities in the United States, federal officials said.

 

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You can be sure all the self-appointed aviation "experts" and the ignorant media will be hand wringing over the " unsafe propellor aircraft."

And our aviation hating Senator, John McCain, will rush through the Senate a bill banning 19 pax turboprops for 121 ops.

 

[350DRIVER]

233YV - approx 8 years old according to Johhny O.

 

[LA Confidential]

Per CNN:

All on board have perished, two maint. wrks in hanger unaccounted for, Tower operator reported plane "hit" "on it's back".

God rest their souls

 

[350DRIVER]

15,000 hours on plane- 21,000 cycles - Mesa took deliv. in August of 96-

 

[Flic1]

Check out the CNN.com interactive link to the Beech1900. They show a picture of a King Air.....geeez.

 

[Joseph II]

CNN Got it Wrong

Go to http://www.cnn.com Take a look at the link for the Beech 1900 right under the main story. It will say "Interactive Beech 1900 aircraft." Does that look like a 1900 to you?