The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) concluded that the crash most likely occurred due to the pilot's inability to successfully control the aircraft after a reduction in power from the left engine.

The flight duration from lift off to impact was 26 seconds with the aircraft reaching a maximum altitude of approximately 120 feet above ground level (AGL).

[4] The King Air B200 serial number BB-1686, was manufactured in 2000 and was powered by two Pratt & Whitney PT6A-42 turboprop engines turning four bladed Hartzell constant-speed propellers.

[1][3] The pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft was 53-year-old Mark Goldstein, a retired Air Traffic Controller from Wichita who held a valid Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) second-class medical certificate.

Other evidence, including video taken by cameras around the airport, suggested that considerable left rudder input was applied by the pilot shortly before the crash.

On March 1, 2016, the NTSB released its final report on the accident, and states under the heading Probable Cause and Findings that: The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot's failure to maintain lateral control of the airplane after a reduction in left engine power and his application of inappropriate rudder input.

[1]A year after the accident, in October 2015, FlightSafety announced that the damaged portion of the training center was to be torn down, and the land occupied by the building returned to the city of Wichita.