Criminal Occurrence description
Last updated: 18 June 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 19 JUL 1994 |
| Time: | ca 16:30 |
| Type: | Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante |
| Operator: | Alas Chiricanas |
| Registration: | HP-1202AC |
| C/n / msn: | 110375 |
| First flight: | 1981 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | 10 km (6.3 mls) from Colon-Enrique A. Jimenez Airport (ONX) (Panama)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Colon-Enrique A. Jimenez Airport (ONX/MPEJ), Panama |
| Panama City (unknown airport), Panama | |
| Flightnumber: | 901 |
The aircraft is said to have crashed on a wooded hillside following an in-flight explosion. Twelve Jewish businessmen were among the passengers.
The FBI suspected that one of the passengers, a man named Jamal Lya, was responsible for carrying the bomb aboard the aircraft.
Sources:
» Air Safety Week 25.07.1994 (p. 4)
» Haagsche Crt 20.7(4)
» Scramble 183
» FBI
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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.
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