ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 322545
| Date: | Wednesday 29 September 2004 |
| Time: | 18:59 |
| Type: |  IRMA/Pilatus Britten-Norman BN-2A-27 Islander |
| Owner/operator: | Air Flamenco |
| Registration: | N902GD |
| MSN: | 905 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-E4C5 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 1 km N off Vega Baja -
 Puerto Rico
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Mayaguez-Eugenio M. de Hostos Airport (MAZ/TJMZ) |
| San Juan-Isla Grande Airport (SIG/TJIG) | |
| Investigating agency: | NTSB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The airplane, transporting bank financial documents, departed Mayaguez at 18:30. En route the airplane approached and penetrated a level 4-5 rain shower. Control was lost and the plane crashed into the sea.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The pilot's improper inflight planning which resulted in an inflight encounter with weather (low ceilings and thunderstorms), his loss of aircraft control, and an inflight collision with the ocean during uncontrolled descent."
Accident investigation:
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