Salzburg - Krems

On May 12, 1996 at 04:30 PM, Salzburg - Krems experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 300 Super King Air, operated by Airlink Austria, with the event recorded near Linz-Hörsching Upper Austria.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. En route from Salzburg to Krems, while cruising in IMC conditions, the crew cancelled the IFR flight plan and continued under VFR mode. Shortly later, the twin engine aircraft struck the slope of a mountain shrouded by clouds and crashed about 35 km northeast of Linz. All four occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration OE-FEM, MSN FA-210, year of manufacture 1990.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 48.1918°, 14.1490°.