Charlotte Crash: Wrong Weights or Wrong Rigging? Weight and balance and control circuit maintenance continue to be the focus of the NTSB's investigation into the crash of Air Midwest 5481.
AIR MIDWEST FLIGHT 5481 -- a Beech 1900D operating as US Airways Express -- crashed shortly after takeoff from Charlotte-Douglas International Airport (CLT) on Jan. 8, 2003, at about 0848 EST. The two pilots and all 19 passengers were killed. Only moments before, all had seemed normal as the...
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