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Fed Ex Crash in Wichita

What: Federal Express turboprop Cessna Caravan
Where: West 47th Street South, Wichita Mid-Continent Airport
When: Nov. 6, 2012
Who: 1 fatality
Why: Pilot Brian Quinn had taken off from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport but turned back, declaring Mayday, after developing engine trouble, with “oil on the windshield.”

The pilot landed in a grass field, crossed it and struck a tree row two miles south of the airport.

He died at the scene. Sedgwick County and Wichita emergency workers responded. The accident is under investigation.

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