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Aviation => Aviation Accidents/Incidents => Topic started by: RaisinBran on October 30, 2014, 15:15:34 UTC

Title: KICT (Wichita, KS) Plane crash into building.
Post by: RaisinBran on October 30, 2014, 15:15:34 UTC

Guess this is happening as I type.  Not sure what happened yet.  Twitter is lit up with reports, listening to the tower feed but not really hearing anything but seemingly normal chatter.

Title: Re: KICT (Wichita, KS) Plane crash into building.
Post by: RaisinBran on October 30, 2014, 15:30:19 UTC

News reporting a twin engined Beechcraft King Air crashed into the Flight Safety building at the airport.  10 people unaccounted for according to KSN-TV live feed.

Title: Re: KICT (Wichita, KS) Plane crash into building.
Post by: RaisinBran on October 30, 2014, 16:11:39 UTC

Update from the Wichita Fire Chief:  2 dead, 4 injured, 4 unaccounted for.  Plane clipped the top corner of the Flight Safety building where simulators are located.

1:24PM EST - Number of deaths now up to 4 people.

Title: Re: KICT (Wichita, KS) Plane crash into building.
Post by: blakepilot on October 30, 2014, 18:42:26 UTC

The brutal general aviation season continues....sigh...