Accidents
ATSB Investigates King Air B200 Crash in Melbourne
All four passengers and the pilot died when their plane struck a shopping center shortly after takeoff.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) dispatched a team to investigate the February 21 crash of a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air, which left five dead after it struck a shopping center in Melbourne, Victoria. The 1996 King Air, Australian registered VH-ZCR, had departed Essendon Airport in Melbourne on a charter flight to King Island, but crashed into the Direct Factory Outlet center shortly after takeoff and burst into flames. The aircraft was destroyed and the pilot and four passengers died in the accident. The accident occurred shortly before 9 a.m., before the center had opened. No one was in the building at the time of the accident, the Victoria State Police said.

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