Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 03 MAY 2000 |
| Type: | Britten-Norman BN-2A-9 Islander |
| Operator: | Trans Guyana Airways |
| Registration: | 8R-GAC |
| C/n / msn: | 694 |
| First flight: | 1973 |
| Engines: | 2 Lycoming O-540-E4C5 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Kurupung Airport (KPG) (Guyana)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The Islander, transporting fuel, crashed into a mountain shrouded in mist.
Sources:
» Scramble
» Thomas Brügge
» Caribbean Aviation web site
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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.
