ASN Aircraft accident Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante HP-1202AC Colon-Enrique A. Jimenez Airport (ONX)

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Status:
Date:	Tuesday 19 July 1994
Time:	16:30
Type:	Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante
Operator:	Alas Chiricanas
Registration:	HP-1202AC
MSN:	110375
First flight:	1981
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34
Crew:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18
Total:	Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21
Aircraft damage:	Damaged beyond repair
Location:	10 km (6.3 mls) from Colon-Enrique A. Jimenez Airport (ONX) ( Panama)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Colón-Enrique A. Jiménez Airport (ONX/MPEJ), Panama
Destination airport:	Panama City (unknown airport), Panama
Flightnumber:	901

Narrative:
The aircraft is said to have crashed on a wooded hillside following an in-flight explosion. Twelve Jewish businessmen were among the passengers.
The FBI suspected that one of the passengers, a man named Jamal Lya, was responsible for carrying the bomb aboard the aircraft.

Sources:

» Air Safety Week 25 July 1994 (p. 4)
» Haagsche Crt 20.7(4)
» Scramble 183
» FBI

Photos

photo of Embraer-EMB-110P1-Bandeirante-N60CZ

accident date: 19-07-1994
type: Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante
registration: N60CZ

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.

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