Date: | Monday 15 December 2008 |
Time: | 17:10 |
Type: | Britten-Norman BN-2A Trislander Mk.III-2 |
Owner/operator: | Línea Aérea Puertorriqueña - LAP |
Registration: | N650LP |
MSN: | 1029 |
Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
Engine model: | Lycoming O-540-E4C5 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Caribbean Sea, off Turks and Caicos Islands -
Atlantic Ocean
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Santiago de los Caballeros-Cibao International Airport (STI/MDST) |
Destination airport: | Mayaguana Airport (MYG/MYMM) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:The BN-2A Trislander plane operated on a flight from Santiago de los Caballeros-Cibao International Airport (STI), Dominican Republic to Mayaguana (MYG), Bahamas. It departed at 16:06. An hour later, the pilot contacted Providenciales ATC (Turks and Caicos Islands) reporting that he had an emergency, according to Dominican officials. The airplane probably crashed into the sea shortly after the distress call.
A spokesman of the Asociación Nacional de Pilotos reported that the licence of the pilot on the accident airplane had been suspended in October 2006.
Search for the plane has been called off.
Sources:
Estaba cancelada licencia piloto (El Viajero Digital, 16-12-2008)
Buscan avión caído al mar con 12 pasajeros en R. Dominicana (Cadena Global, 16-12-2008)
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Opa-Locka Airport, FL (OPF/KOPF); 1991
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