Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 06 MAY 1993 |
| Type: | Shorts 330-200 |
| Operator: | Atlantic Air BVI |
| Registration: | VP-LVR |
| C/n / msn: | SH.3006 |
| First flight: | 1976 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 27 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 30 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Beef Island Airport (EIS) (British Virgin Islands)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Tortola-Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, Beef Island (EIS/TUPJ), British Virgin Islands |
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Overran into the sea after aborting the takeoff. All instruments etc. were removed from the plane and it was sunk in only 42 feet of water off Great Dog Island to serve as a dive site.
Events:
Sources:
» Air International
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G-BEEO was leased to Air BVI as VP-LVR in 1992
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
