Loss of control after takeoff. On 24 December 2002, a SA 227 Metroliner III being operated by Danish freight and passenger charter operator Ben Air on a positioning flight from Aberdeen to Aalborg with just the two pilots on board crashed just after take off in marginal VMC at night following a loss of control. It collided with a car which caught fire and both aircraft and car were destroyed although only one person, one of the flight crew, sustained any injury, which was minor.