ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327566
| Date: | Sunday 28 August 1983 |
| Time: | 21:45 |
| Type: |  Beechcraft 200 Super King Air |
| Owner/operator: | Moore's Air Charter |
| Registration: | VH-KTE |
| MSN: | BB-320 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1978 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-41 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 3,5 km S of Adavale, QLD -
 Australia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Windorah Airport, QLD (WNR/YWDH) |
| Toowoomba Airport, QLD (TWB/YTWB) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Beechcraft 200 Super King Air aircraft, VH-KTE, broke up in flight and crashed to the ground 3.5 kilometres south of Adavale. The pilot-in-command and the 11 passengers were killed when the aircraft fuselage, devoid of wings and empennage, impacted the ground, inverted.
The cause of the accident could not be established.
Sources:
BASI report
Location
Images:
photo (c) Robyn McCabe; Adavale, QLD
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