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I took flying lessons out of that airport in the early ‘90s although I didn’t get my license. At the time it was a very busy general aviation airport. I believe it was the second or third busiest single-runway general aviation airport in the country. Sharp bank on takeoff and crashed nose first into a hanger. Sounds like they lost power on one engine and the pilot couldn’t correct. Unfortunately a fairly common scenario with small twin-engine aircraft. One unusual thing about flying in and out of the airport is that the landing pattern is always on the east side of the airport. Controlled airspace exists immediately to the west and south of the airport because of Love Field and DFW. Prayers for all those onboard. The weather in Dallas is very mild today no appreciable wind to speak of. Certainly, nothing to cause any kind of a problem with a crosswind landing.

Company at Addison Airport has 2 plane crashes in less than 6 months
The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating two plane crashes involving the same company at Addison Airport in less than six months.

Author: Matt Howerton
Published: 9:40 PM CDT August 20, 2018
Updated: 10:11 PM CDT August 20, 2018
ADDISON, Texas—The National Transportation Safety Board is now investigating two plane crashes involving the same company at Addison Airport in less than six months.

That company, known at US Sport Aircraft, was involved in a crash over the weekend and in March earlier this year.

Fort Worth resident Sheema Shaik was involved in the March crash as a passenger. She said that she wanted to see Texas from the air, so she and her husband paid for separate flights with US Sport Aircraft through Groupon.

But after taking off, a preliminary NTSB report shows that the pilot experienced a vapor lock with the fuel pump and radioed to the control tower that she needed to make an emergency landing.

A vapor lock is when fuel changes state from a liquid to a gas while in the delivery system. The plane ended up crashing between a taxiway and a runway at the airport.

Shaik said that she feared she was going to die. “I did not have that much time to think you know,” Shaik said. “I knew that we were going down—I just thought about my family.”

What followed was a medical nightmare that left Shaik regretting the fact that she ever got into the cockpit of her plane. She received second-degree burns to her back, broke both legs and ankles, her neck, ribs, hand, and her lower back.

Shaik said that she also got a concussion that was so bad, that she said she can no longer smell or taste things.

Right now, she can’t walk—and there’s a chance she could lose her right foot because her talus bone is dead. Her medical bills, she said, are more than half-a-million dollars. “Each day I’m not a normal person,” Shaik said. “It’s a challenge for me.”

The NTSB is investigating the cause of Shaik’s crash, and now they’re looking into another involving US Sport Aircraft. The company is now identifying as ‘Thrust Flight’ but acknowledges that it was formerly US Sport Aircraft on its website.