Moab - Cedar City

On August 22, 2008 at 05:50 PM, Moab - Cedar City experienced a crash involving Beechcraft 100 King Air, operated by Leavitt Group Wings, with the event recorded near Moab Utah.

The flight was categorized as executive/corporate/business and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

10 people were known to be on board, 10 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 9, passenger fatalities: 9, other fatalities: 0.

The twin engine aircraft, owned by the Red Canyon Aesthetics & Medical Spa, a dermatology clinic headquartered in Cedar City, was returning to its base when shortly after take off, the pilot elected to make an emergency landing due to technical problem. The aircraft hit the ground, skidded for 300 meters and came to rest in flames in the desert, near the Arches National Park. All 10 occupants, among them some cancer specialist who had traveled to Moab early that day to provide cancer screening, cancer treatment, and other medical services to citizens in Moab, were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration N601PC, MSN B-225, year of manufacture 1975.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 38.5738°, -109.5462°.