On 16 December 1988, at approximately 10.15am, a charter flight conducted by a Mitsubishi MU-2B-60 Marquis aircraft was en route from Leonora to Kalgoorlie via Leinster when it  crashed on a property 55 km north-west of Leonora Airfield, Western Australia.

The pilot and nine passengers were killed and the aircraft was destroyed by the impact and a subsequent fire.