B200 down near LIT

[Wardogg]

Ive seen conflicting reports on number aboard and tail number.

Some as high as 10 pax.

Five people dead after plane crash near Little Rock 3M plant

A plane crashed and killed five people near the 3M Plant in Little Rock this afternoon, according to officials.

www.thv11.com

 

[fholbert]

N55PC, but they block tracking so it's hard to be 100%.

Edit:

Date:	22-FEB-2023
Time:	11:57
Type:	Beechcraft 200 King Air
Owner/operator:	CTEH Leasing LLC
Registration:	N55PC*
MSN:	BB-1170
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,5 km S of Little Rock National Airport, AR (LIT/KLIT) - United States of America
Phase:	Initial climb
Nature:	Executive
Departure airport:	Little Rock-Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport, AR (LIT/KLIT)
Destination airport:	Columbus-John Glenn International Airport, OH (CMH/KCMH)
Investigating agency:	NTSB
Confidence Rating:	Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources

Narrative:
A Beechcraft 200 King Air, N55PC, was destroyed when it impacted the terrain shortly after takeoff from runway 18 at Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport/Adams Field (KLIT), Little Rock, Arkansas.
The five people onboard sustained fatal injuries.


Weather reported about the accident time (1757Z):
KLIT 221802Z 30022G40KT 2SM -RA SCT036 OVC047 19/13 A2968 RMK AO2 PK WND 30040/1759 WSHFT 1748 RAB00 PRESRR P0000 T01890128
KLIT 221753Z 21019G27KT 10SM BKN048 OVC060 24/14 A2962 RMK AO2 PK WND 22036/1721 SLP028 T02390144 10250 20206 56017

* not confirmed

 

[Wardogg]

There were a • ton of PIREPS of severe and even extreme turbulence today well ahead of that front.

 

[Beefy McGee]

Taking off in something that small in that weather? I'd have waited. RIP.

 

[Beep]

I just keep looking at the take off time, and wind shift.
dang.

 

[JJ429PA]

Damn. I was on the back end of that system today and things were super unstable. +/- 20kts in the low teens. Had an almost 180-degree wind shift of 25+ gusts in the 3 minutes from getting the ASOS and landing. It didn't look all that bad out either. Watch out.

 

[Beefy McGee]

Did they take off with a tailwind (maybe runway 18), or turn south and encounter a tailwind (off one of the 4/22 runways? Impact was 1.5 km south of the airport, with peak wind reported as 300/40 kts two minutes after the crash time in the report. ATIS time was 5 minutes after the crash. I'm thinking they took off southbound per the hour old ATIS with winds from 210.

 

[Fireflights]

From what it looks like (as of now), the wind shifted during their takeoff due to the gust front arriving at the field.
The numbers posted above would mean a significant shear to a tailwind component.

Eyewitnesses have stated that they plane seemed stable until the last few seconds, then “nose-dived” into the 3M plant property.

And I know, eyewitnesses are usually not reliable at all, especially non aviation-trained eyewitnesses.

Having said that: People on the airport who saw the takeoff have said that after the initial climb the King Air leveled off, and seemed to be in a slight decent until impact. Impact site is on the runway 18 departure heading.

That plane & company have been Little Rock based for a long time, but I didn’t know the pilot.