Melbourne Airplane crash Company had a'near miss'history. Investigations leading to the cause of fatal airplane crash at a shopping mall near Melbourne's Essendon Airport revealed a near miss involving the same Charter company. The Airplane had crashed into the DFO shopping centre in Melbourne. Four American tourists and Pilot Max Quartermain were killed when their Beechcraft B200 Super King Air experienced engine failure soon after take-off from Essendon Airport on Tuesday. The flight was headed for King Island off Tasmania's north coast, crashed into the DFO shopping centre and flames engulfed the debris. The ABC reports Mr Quartermain was under investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) after his Airplane, with a call signal VH-OWN, came within 100m of another aircraft in bad weather at Mt Hotham in September 2015. An investigation summary reported the Airplane had "tracking difficulties" on approach to Mt Hoth...

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