Preliminary Reports
No Survivors in King Air Crash, Beech King Air 200, Feb. 22, 2023, Little Rock, Arkansas
Five members of a North Little Rock environmental consulting firm were killed when their King Air crashed just after takeoff from Bill and Hillary Clinton National Airport. The flight was bound for Columbus, Ohio, where the occupants were to investigate a fatal explosion in a metals factory. A line of thunderstorms with 40-knot wind gusts was reportedly passing through the area at the time, and the National Weather Service had issued a Special Weather Statement about 30 minutes before the accident. Initial press reports did not include any witness accounts of the crash, which occurred within one mile of the airport.
Five Lost in Air Ambulance Break-up, Pilatus PC-12/45, Feb. 24, 2023, Stagecoach, Nevada
All five occupants, including the pilot, two medical crewmen, a patient, and the patient’s wife, perished when the single-engine turboprop crashed 14 minutes after takeoff from Reno/Tahoe International Airport. The air ambulance flight departed at 21:00 local time with a destination of Salt Lake City. Radar and ADS-B track data showed that it reached a maximum altitude of 19,400 feet before entering a spiralling descent at a rate that exceeded 30,000 fpm. No distress call was received. The last radar hit came at 11,000 feet; two hours later first responders found the main wreckage about 25 miles southeast of the airport.
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