The engine-driven fuel pumps on both engines contained fuel in their respective fuel filter bowls. All transfer pumps and boost pumps were operational. No useable amount of fuel was found in any of the airplane's fuel tanks however, fuel was observed in the fuel lines. During examination of the recovered wreckage, flight control continuity was established. The airplane impacted terrain before the threshold for runway 25. The controller advised that the lights on runway 25 were being turned on and issued a landing clearance. As the airplane approached the airport, the pilot requested the runway lights for runway 25 be turned on and reported that the airplane lost engine power in one engine. When asked if he needed assistance, he replied "negative." The pilot was cleared to perform a visual approach to runway 19 during night conditions. As the airplane approached the destination airport, the pilot asked for priority handling and reported that the airplane "lost a transfer pump and had a little less fuel than he thought," and he did not want to come in with a single engine. He subsequently departed on the return flight. He landed and had the airplane serviced with 150 gallons of fuel. The private pilot departed on a cross-country flight in his high-performance, turbine-powered airplane with full tanks of fuel. A Federal Aviation Administration aviation safety inspector and an air safety investigator from Textron Aviation documented the accident site and the wreckage was recovered to a secure location for a future examination of the airframe and the two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-42 engines. The airplane sustained fire damage and was fragmented from impacting terrain. The airplane came to rest on a flat grass field to the east of runway 19 on airport property. During the takeoff, the airplane departed controlled flight and impacted terrain. Preliminary flight track data showed the pilot initiated a takeoff from runway 19 at RFD. The airplane was at Chronos Aviation, LLC (a 14 CFR Part 145 repair station) at the Rockford International Airport (RFD), Rockford, Illinois, for maintenance work. The purpose of the flight was to relocation the airplane to the pilot's home base near Wayne, Illinois. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 91 positioning flight. On August 20, 2020, about 1543 central daylight time, a Beech 200 airplane, N198DM, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Rockford, Illinois.
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