King Air 200 Crash?

[Capthuff]

Does anyone have any info about the 200 crash in MA. on Apr 4th? I've been out of the loop and was just wondering what happened? (if anybody but the crew even knows)
thanks

 

[capt_zman]

Heard from a couple of reliable sources that the pilot diverted from BED to FIT (departed from LGA) due to moderate to severe ice. Shot the approach, went missed, made a required climbing turn on the MAP procedure and stalled it. Very tragic.

 

[chperplt]

The ice was ugly that day. Moderate to severe mixed between 5000 and 2000 in the Boston area. Shot two approaches into Bos that morning.

 

[tach32]

What a tradegy!
Here's the NTSB filing:
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** Report created 4/14/2003 Record 8 **
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IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 257CG Make/Model: BE20 Description: 200, 1300 Super King Air, Comm
Date: 04/04/2003 Time: 1434

Event Type: Accident Highest Injury: Fatal Mid Air: N Missing: N
Damage: Destroyed

LOCATION
City: LEOMINSTER State: MA Country: US

DESCRIPTION
ACFT CRASHED INTO A BUILDING WHILE ON A GPS APPROACH TO RUNWAY 14, 6
PERSONS ON BOARD SUFFERED FATAL INJURIES, ONE PASSENGER SUSTAINED MINOR
INJURIES AND ONE BUILDING OCCUPANT SUSTAINED MINOR INJURIES, LEOMINSTER, MA

INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 6
# Crew: 2 Fat: 2 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:
# Pass: 5 Fat: 4 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:
# Grnd: Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 1 Unk:

WEATHER: FIT AOSO-1431Z 07009KT 3SM BR BKN011 OVC017 M02/M03 A3015

OTHER DATA
Activity: Business Phase: Approach Operation: Air Taxi (On Demand)

Departed: LA GUARDIA, NY Dep Date: Dep. Time:
Destination: FITCHBURG, MA Flt Plan: IFR Wx Briefing: Y
Last Radio Cont: UNK
Last Clearance: CLEARANCE FOR GPS 14 APCH AND CHGE FREQ

FAA FSDO: WINDSOR LOCKS, CT (NE03) Entry date: 04/07/2003


Here is an article as well:

Plane crashes into building
From correspondents in Leominster, Massachusetts
05apr03
A SMALL plane crashed into a sheet metal shop overnight, killing six of the seven people on board and igniting a huge fireball that sent workers scrambling for safety, authorities said.

The plane slammed into the single-storey building that houses DE Corp in Leominster, about 55km northwest of Boston, witnesses said.

Fire officials said six people on the Beech King Air 200, a twin-engine turbo prop, were killed. One of those aboard survived.

David Brideau, who works at the sheet metal company, said all seven employees who were in the building got out safely, although one was burned.

He said he heard an explosion, then saw a huge fireball after the crash.

"Everything just happened really quick," Brideau told local station WHDH-TV. "I dropped to my knees (and) ran out."

The plane left LaGuardia airport in New York and was scheduled to land at Hanscom Field in Bedford, Massachusetts. But the pilot asked for permission to land at Fitchburg Municipal Airport instead, said Jim Peters, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.

"There was no indication of any trouble at that point," Peters said.

The plane disappeared from radar after being cleared to approach Fitchburg. Flight controllers tried to contact the pilot several times, to no avail, Peters said.

A few minutes later, the FAA received a call saying the plane had crashed.

Kevin Bailey, a manager at a nearby automotive chemical manufacturing plant, said he heard the plane over the buzz of their own machines.

"It sounded like the plane was right on top of our building," he said.

The FAA said the plane was registered to FS Corsair Inc.

 

[eaglefly]

The NTSB report says the plane was circling to land out of a GPS approach in and out of cloud and witnesses said the plane banked 90 degrees into a too tight downwind and near vertical again turning base where it stalled and crashed into a building. A surviving passenger said she was aware the pilot liked to make "sharp turns".

Throw in a little ice, poorly managed airspeed and a sloppy pattern and there you have it.

 

[Huck]

she was aware the pilot liked to make "sharp turns".

I quit a job over this once - the PIC liked to roll 60 deg. at 30 feet on takeoff. I asked him to stop, but it was how he flew in the USAF and no kid was gonna get him to stop. He killed himself about 3 years later in a Seneca.