Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 17 MAR 2000 |
| Time: | ca 09:30 |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | AeroPerlas |
| Registration: | HP-1267APP |
| C/n / msn: | 624 |
| First flight: | 1979-05-15 (20 years 10 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 8 / Occupants: 8 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Carreto (Panama)
 |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Panama City Albrook-Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport (BLB/MPLB), Panama |
| Puerto Obaldia Airport (PUE/MPOA), Panama |
The AeroPerlas Twin Otter departed Aeropuerto Marcos A. Gelabert at 08:46 for a flight of about 55 minutes to Puerto Obaldia. The aircraft disappeared some 20 minutes prior to the ETA. En route altitude was 7500 feet and weather conditions allowed VFR. At first the aircraft was thought to have been hijacked to Colombia. On March 22 however a search party aboard HP-1355 found the wreckage on a mountainside 12.5nm from Puerto Obaldia at 11:35. The wreckage was found at the 2500 feet level of a 2790 feet high mountain.
Sources:
» Diario El Universal de Panamá
Photos
LN-BNH was sold to de Havilland Canada as C-FTOT after 25 years in service with Widerøe and immediately sold on to Aeroperlas, November 1994
Map
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 Panama City Albrook-Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport to Puerto Obaldia Airport as the crow flies is 236 km (148 miles).
Distance from Panama City Albrook-Marcos A. Gelabert International Airport to Puerto Obaldia Airport as the crow flies is 236 km (148 miles).
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.
