Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 08 DEC 1999 |
| Type: | Cessna 208A Caravan I |
| Operator: | TAF Linhas Aéreas |
| Registration: | PT-OHA |
| C/n / msn: | 208-00097 |
| First flight: | 1986 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Joćo Pessoa, PB (Brazil)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Joćo Pessoa-Castro Pinto Airport, PB (JPA/SBJP), Brazil |
| Recife-Guararapes International Airport, PE (REC/SBRF), Brazil |
About 10 minutes after the take-off, engine problems forced the crew to return to the airport. The crew were not able to carry out an emergency landing on the BR-101 highway and ditched the plane in trees.
Events:
Sources:
» DAC - Departamento de Aviaēćo Civil: Acidentes aeronįuticos ocorridos em 1999
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Joćo Pessoa-Castro Pinto Airport, PB to Recife-Guararapes International Airport, PE as the crow flies is 108 km (68 miles).
Distance from Joćo Pessoa-Castro Pinto Airport, PB to Recife-Guararapes International Airport, PE as the crow flies is 108 km (68 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Networks opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
