Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 02 JUL 2004 |
| Time: | 13:38 |
| Type: | IAI 1124 Westwind |
| Operator: | Air Trek |
| Registration: | N280AT |
| C/n / msn: | 247 |
| First flight: | 1979 |
| Engines: | 2 Garrett TFE731-3-1G |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Panama City-Tocumen International Airport (PTY) (Panama)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Panama City-Tocumen International Airport (PTY/MPTO), Panama |
| Washington-Dulles International Airport, DC (IAD/KIAD), United States of America |
The air ambulance plane was transporting two Italian patients from Quito, Ecuador for medical treatment to Washington and Milan. A refueling stop was made in Panama. After refueling, the airplane was started and taxied to runway 3L. After lifting off the runway it reportedly pitched up vertically, the nose then lowered, and the wings rocked side to side. The airplane veered right with a 90-degree bank and impacted the ground on taxiway Hotel. The right wing and right engine separated from the fuselage. The airplane rolled onto it's back, collapsing the vertical stabilizer. The main fuselage, left wing, and left engine continued across a grass field, where it struck an airport worker, and impacted a concrete wall. The airplane continued through the wall, and came to rest inverted inside an empty building - the former Evergreen International hangar.
Events:
Sources:
» Airliners.net
» Crítica
» NTSB
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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-Tocumen International Airport to Washington-Dulles International Airport, DC as the crow flies is 3310 km (2069 miles).
Distance from Panama City-Tocumen International Airport to Washington-Dulles International Airport, DC as the crow flies is 3310 km (2069 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.
