October 31, 2014 - On Thursday a Beechcraft 200 King Air, N52SZ departing  runway 1R at Wichita Mid Continent Airport, Kansas for Mena Intermountain Municipal Airport, Arkansas crashed just after takeoff killing four people.

At or about 9:50 AM the pilot, Mark Goldstein, 53, was cleared by air traffic control (ATC) for takeoff. As he began to ascend above the runway one of the two engines failed, Goldstein radioed ATC to state "we lost the left engine" and that he was retuning back to the airport to land.

Within seconds the King Air crashed into a two-story building where FlightSafety Cessna Learning Center is located. FlightSafety International spokesman, Steve Phillips said "It crashed into the roof of our training center", which is located about 1,775 feet left of runway 1R centerline. The aircraft burst into a ball of fire killing the pilot and three people in the learning center.

The aircraft is owned by Beechcraft Corp, the company purchased the aircraft back from its prior owner Sheetz Inc. an Altoona, Pennsylvania based convenience store chain. Sheetz Inc. spokesperson, Tarah Arnold said “We sold the plane on September 25, 2012 back to Beechcraft.”