ASN Aircraft accident Beechcraft 200 Super King Air N456L Parker, CO
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Status:Accident investigation report completed and information captured
Date:Thursday 27 March 1980
Time:14:52
Type:Silhouette image of generic BE20 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different
Beechcraft 200 Super King Air
Operator:Lufkin Industries
Registration: N456L
MSN: BB-112
First flight: 1975
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-41
Crew:Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8
Total:Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage: Destroyed
Aircraft fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:N of Parker, CO (   United States of America)
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature:Executive
Departure airport:Denver-Arapahoe County Airport, CO (APA/KAPA), United States of America
Destination airport:Lufkin Angelina County Airport, TX (LFK/KLFK), United States of America
Narrative:
A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air, N456L, owned and operated by Lufkin Industries, crashed and burned in an open field near Parker, Colorado.
About 9 1/2 minutes after departure from Denver-Arapahoe County Airport, CO (APA), the pilots of N456L declared an emergency because of airframe icing. The aircraft was being vectored to land at Denver-Stapleton International Airport, CO, when it crashed into an open field about 13 miles east of Arapahoe County Airport. The two pilots and eight passengers on board were killed in the crash and subsequent ground fire. The aircraft was destroyed.

Probable Cause:

The National Transportation Safety Board determines that the probable cause of the accident was the rapid accumulation of ice on the underwing surface aft of the deicing boots which destroyed the aircraft's capability to maintain level flight because the flightcrew: failed to obtain a current weather briefing before departure; failed to make a timely decision to discontinue the climb and return to Arapahoe Airport; and operated the over-gross-weight aircraft at high angles of attack in severe icing conditions.

Accident investigation:

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Investigating agency: NTSB
Status: Investigation completed
Duration: 2 years and 5 months
Accident number: NTSB/AAR-82-9
Download report: Final report

Classification:
Icing
Loss of control

Sources:
» NTSB-AAR-82-9


Follow-up / safety actions

NTSB issued 4 Safety Recommendations

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Distance from Denver-Arapahoe County Airport, CO to Lufkin Angelina County Airport, TX as the crow flies is 1292 km (808 miles).

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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