Accidents
Accidents: Final Report - CONTROLLER ERROR CONSIDERED IN FATAL ACCIDENT
Hawker Beechcraft King Air B100, Benavides, Texas, Oct.

Hawker Beechcraft King Air B100, Benavides, Texas, Oct. 26, 2009–After taking off from Garner Field Airport in Uvalde, Texas, on a Part 91 IFR flight, the King Air (registered to Mazak Properties) crashed during an encounter with severe weather.

The private pilot and three passengers were killed and the aircraft was destroyed. Before departure, the pilot received three weather briefings from an automated flight service station and expressed his concern about the conditions. According to investigators, he altered his flight plan in an attempt to fly around storms.