Pilot Max Quartermain and four American tourists died when a Beechcraft B200 Super King Air VH-ZCR crashed into the DFO shopping centre shortly after takeoff from Essendon Airport on February 21 ...

The King Air then began to descend and the pilot transmitted a mayday call. It then collided with a building in the Bulla Road Precinct Retail Outlet Centre of Essendon Airport.