2009 Quito B200 King Air crash
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The 2009 Quito B200 King Air crash occurred when an Ecuadorian Air Force
Beechcraft B200 King Air
struck a building in the Guápulo
district of Quito
, Ecuador
on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. GMT). The plane was trying to land at Mariscal Sucre International Airport
in heavy fog but grazed one house and plowed into the four-story Linda Vista apartment building. The crash killed all five of the aircraft occupants, including the three military crewmembers as well as the wife and son of one them, who were flying as passengers. Two people on the ground perished. Four other planes had crashed near the same site in the 1990s
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Ecuadorian Air Force
The Ecuadorian Air Force is the Air arm of the Military of Ecuador and responsible for the protection of the Ecuadorian airspace.-Mission:To develop the military air wing, in order to execute institutional objectives which guarantee sovereignty and contribute towards the nation's security and...
Beechcraft B200 King Air
Beechcraft Super King Air
The Beechcraft Super King Air family is part of a line of twin-turboprop aircraft produced by the Beech Aircraft Corporation . The King Air line comprises a number of model series that fall into two families: the Model 90 series, Model 100 series , Model 200 series and Model 300 series...
struck a building in the Guápulo
Guápulo
Guápulo is a district of Quito, Ecuador, also called an electoral parish . The parish was established as a result of the October 2004 political elections when the city was divided into 19 urban electoral parishes...
district of Quito
Quito
San Francisco de Quito, most often called Quito , is the capital city of Ecuador in northwestern South America. It is located in north-central Ecuador in the Guayllabamba river basin, on the eastern slopes of Pichincha, an active stratovolcano in the Andes mountains...
, Ecuador
Ecuador
Ecuador , officially the Republic of Ecuador is a representative democratic republic in South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and by the Pacific Ocean to the west. It is one of only two countries in South America, along with Chile, that do not have a border...
on March 19, 2009 at 5:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. GMT). The plane was trying to land at Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Mariscal Sucre International Airport
Mariscal Sucre International Airport is the international airport serving Quito, the capital city of Ecuador. It is named after Venezuelan born Antonio José de Sucre, known as the "Gran Mariscal de Ayacucho" , a hero of Ecuadorian and Latin American independence...
in heavy fog but grazed one house and plowed into the four-story Linda Vista apartment building. The crash killed all five of the aircraft occupants, including the three military crewmembers as well as the wife and son of one them, who were flying as passengers. Two people on the ground perished. Four other planes had crashed near the same site in the 1990s
1990s
File:1990s decade montage.png|From left, clockwise: The Hubble Space Telescope floats in space after it was taken up in 1990; American F-16s and F-15s fly over burning oil fields and the USA Lexie in Operation Desert Storm, also known as the 1991 Gulf War; The signing of the Oslo Accords on...
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