A Beech King Air B100 that departed Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport (KFXE) on November 10 for a planned relief supply flight to Montego Bay, Jamaica (MKJS), crashed minutes after takeoff, impacting a pond in a residential area 7 miles north-northwest of the airport, according to the just released NTSB preliminary report, which also noted that cargo loaded throughout the aircraft was unsecured. Both occupants died.
The NTSB report documents that most of the relief supplies were not secured in the King Air’s cabin. According to the investigative summary, “The cargo was not weighed; however, the pilot checked the weight documented on each box as the airplane was loaded, and he finished the loading process once he determined that capacity had been reached.” A generator was among the items restrained; the report notes it “was loaded in the aft baggage compartment and secured to the airframe with webbing.” But the rest of the supplies were placed directly in the seating area. A photograph reviewed by investigators showed that after the aircraft was loaded, “the center aisle of the cabin was clear and that the cargo was loaded unsecured throughout the cabin on passenger seats.”
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