Crash caught on security camera

[Spinner]

A Cessna twin engine went down at an airport that serves my area, a few miles north of O'Hare. It was on approach from the south. I saw the stutter frame footage on the news, very eerie to see a plane in this attitude going in. Living like I do in close proximity to 2 large airports, I hate to see this happen, especially when they were so close to the field. Fortunately, nobody on the ground was injured.

http://www.dailyherald.com/galleries/planecrash/index.asp

http://www.dailyherald.com/story.asp?id=149404

[KJ]

Blue skies

[Class29wc]

I am a lic. Airframe and Powerplant mechanic and I have very little good to say about the 421 other than it looks cool on the ground where it spends more time than it should. It has a rep for being a hanger queen, there is always something that wont work on the sucker. The plane that crashed was built in 1974 which means even though they are hard to keep in the air it would still have about 4000 hours total time ( my guesstimate ). You can see below that half of the engine out accidents resulted in fatalities.



"Loss of an engine close to the ground presents a real challenge to the pilot," said Chris Dancy, a spokesman for the Virginia-based Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the nation's largest pilots group. "You just don't have much time to recover."

Cessna 421s have been involved in 197 accidents, 71 of which included fatalities, dating back to 1983, according to pilots association database of NTSB records.

NTSB records show that of 24 accidents involving Cessna 421s in which engine failure was listed as a cause, 12 resulted in fatalities.

An estimated 1,900 Cessna 421s, known as the Golden Eagle, were manufactured from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s. As the plane was upgraded, versions were designated A, B and C. Currently, there are about 1,284 registered to fly in the U.S.

[Doogie320]

You can see below that half of the engine out accidents resulted in fatalities.

The second engine will take you only as far as the crash site? Sounds like the old Beech 18. I was in a Twin Bo with a full load of jumpers when we lost a motor at about 5K. The pilot just let it start to descend and we got out over the airport. We were lucky we had enough altitude to do that.

[Class29wc]

Another twin crash, this one is a real mystery, even with an engine fire, as long as the wing stayed on the plane would have been controllable. The Beech King Air is a very fine aircraft in my opinion.
I have an instrument panel from one hanging on the wall here at NSWA.
RD






Crash near airport kills 6 aboard plane


A twin-engine plane whose pilot had reported engine trouble crashed on
approach to an airport in North Myrtle Beach, S.C., killing all six aboard,
officials said.


The plane was en route from Trenton, N.J., to North Myrtle Beach when it
crashed Friday night, officials said. North Myrtle Beach is 128 miles east
of Columbia.


Federal investigators referred questions about the victims' identities to
the Horry County coroner, who did not return a phone message.


The plane, a King Air 200, was registered to Weekend Air Charter Services
of Trenton, officials said.

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King Air Stats.

Raytheon Aircraft's King Air line, which has been in continuous production
since 1964, is the most successful series of twin turbine-powered business
aircraft ever built.


Nearly 6,000 King Airs of 17 variants have been sold for corporate,
commercial and special mission operations in more than 94 countries
throughout the world, and the King Air fleet has accumulated more than 40
billion operating miles.


The King Air's outstanding safety record parallels other turboprop
aircraft. The fleet average for the United States business turboprop fleet
over the last five years is 1.37 accidents per 100,000 flight hours.


The King Air B200's rate is at 0.94 accidents per 100,000 flight hours.
Fatal accidents are even rarer, occurring 0.26 per 100,000 flight hours for
the King B200, compared to 0.47 for the entire turboprop fleet. (source:
Robert E. Breiling & Associates).


When using accident rates as a measure of aircraft safety, it must be
remembered that the rates are based on all types of operations -- private,
business, corporate, air taxi, cargo, etc.


As aircraft become older, they are used in a variety of operations such as
cargo hauling, check transfer, extensive night and all-weather operations
and are often flown by relatively inexperienced pilots.

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Beech King Air = Military C-12 Huron
https://josac.transcom.mil/images/aircraft/c12.htm

The C-12 Huron, an executive passenger and cargo aircraft, is the military version of the Beech Model 200 Super King Air. The prefix "Super" was later dropped by Raytheon (who had acquired Beechcraft) in 1996. The aircraft is a high-performance, twin-engine turboprop that accommodates a pilot, co-pilot, and eight passengers. It first flew on 27 October 1972 and was adopted by all U.S. armed services (except the Coast Guard), with more than 300 currently active.

The C-12 provides on-call, rapid response, modern air transport for high priority supply and movement of key personnel. Specifically, it is used for VIP transport or to deliver repair parts, equipment, and accident investigation teams wherever needed. Its support role also includes such functions as range clearance, medical evacuation, administrative movement of personnel, transportation connections, and courier flights.

The first three production King Airs were delivered in 1974 to the U.S. Army as RU-21J (later redesignated C-12L) electronic warfare and intelligence-gathering equipment testbeds. In the same year, standard King Airs were obtained off-the-shelf as staff transports by all four U.S. armed services simultaneously, the U.S. Army and USAF aircraft being assigned the designation C-12A, and those for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps (with cargo doors, more powerful engines and high-flotation undercarriages) being designated as UC-12B. All versions were given the name Huron.

Deliveries of the King Air 200 to the USAF as an operational support aircraft under the designation C-12F began in May 1984, these having side cargo doors and payload choices including two casualty litters plus attendants. Forty were purchased by the USAF after an initial five-year lease, six were supplied to the Air National Guard and 17 were delivered to the U.S. Army. The U.S. Navy also obtained 12 UC-12Fs (equivalent to the C-12F) and these, together with the some UC-12Bs, were upgraded to UC-12M standard from 1987.