Date: | Monday 23 October 1972 |
Time: | |
Type: | Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 Islander |
Owner/operator: | Air Melanesie |
Registration: | F-OCRH |
MSN: | 221 |
Year of manufacture: | 1970 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 8 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | ca 20 km from Lenakel Airfield (TAH) -
Vanuatu
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Phase: | Unknown |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Lenakel Airfield (TAH) |
Destination airport: | Port Vila-Bauerfield Airport (VLI/NVVV) |
Narrative:The BN-2A Islander was destroyed in an accident after takeoff from Lenakel Airfield.
According to a passenger, the pilot was flying at low altitude to show cattle to a passenger. The airplane apparently hit trees and cartwheeled in a field.
The date of the accident has also been reported as October 20.
Sources:
BAAA-ACRO
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
Antony Deamer (by E-mail, 3-6-2006 and 28-11-2010)
Location
Images:
photo (c) Tom Fitzgerald; nr Lenakel Airfield (TAH); 23 October 1972
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