King Air down at Essendon?

[DrongoDriver]

Air Ambo Incident - Essendon 21/02/17

An Air Ambo plane has just gone down off the end of 17 into the DFO. Fingers crossed for all onboard.

[josephfeatherweight]

Crash at YMEN

Just hearing news of an accident at YMEN - apparently Air Ambulance King Air.
May have hit shops. Doesn't look good... Thoughts to those involved.

[Pearly White]

ABC Radio reporting black smoke from DFO and witnesses claiming they have seen an air ambulance, possibly a King Air, crash immediately after takeoff.

[Car RAMROD]

EN crash?

Mods delete please, other threads started.

[Pilotette]

Originally Posted by Car RAMROD

Mods delete please, other threads started.

Reports are an Air Ambulance Kingair with 5 POB into the DFO, not good!

[Sunfish]

Media reports came in about 5 min ago. Tullamarine freeway closed. Images with lots of black smoke suggests something bigger than a warrior

[compressor stall]

https://twitter.com/JimmyTraffic has some "info"

[Car RAMROD]

Bloody hell.

There's differing reports as to whether it's an ambo or a charter/non ambo plane.

[Opso92]

Reports of engine failure at around 100ft D: D:

[Desert Flower]

Originally Posted by Car RAMROD

Bloody hell.

There's differing reports as to whether it's an ambo or a charter/non ambo plane.

They're saying now it wasn't an air ambulance, it was a charter aircraft on its way to King Island. I'm thinking it could be ZCR.

DF.

[Car RAMROD]

Ambulance Vic have stated its not their aircraft.

[DJ737]

Possibly VH-ZCR

[Pilotette]

Yeah that's what they're saying now DF and that the pilot called MAYDAY engine failure. Terrible

[logansi]

Yes appears to be VH-ZCR from FlightRadar24. I was at MEL, clearly audible and visible explosion - thought it was a commercial out of here at first.

[RodH]

Five-passenger plane crashes near Melbourne's Essendon Airport - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

[fujii]

200 metres from my front door and pointing approximately in my direction.

[Car RAMROD]

Trying to find the video again but in one of the aerial clips I've seen there was a part that looked like a King Air horizontal stab. But only very little remaining of it.

The Australian now reporting 5 confirmed dead

[DrongoDriver]

ZCR which went in. Looks like engine failure after takeoff, yaw to the left then cartwheeled in. No survivors unfortunately.

[SenZubEanS]

They are not saying confirmed, they are saying feared. Im sure we can all draw the final conclusion but lets not go making incorrect statements on the matter.

[jack11111]

ABC (Australian) News Radio wall to wall coverage at this time.