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.