Date:	Friday 28 October 1977
Time:	08:10
Type:	de Havilland Canada U-1A Otter (DHC-3)
Owner/operator:	Costa Rican Ministry of Security
Registration:	TI-SPF
MSN:	100
Year of manufacture:	1956
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	off Barra del Parismina -   Costa Rica
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	San José-Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO/MROC)
Destination airport:	San José-Juan Santamaria International Airport (SJO/MROC)

Narrative:
Ditched in the Atlantic Ocean, about 500 m off shore from Barra del Parismina, Costa Rica. Both crew members and all four passengers survived.
The flight had departed San José at 07:10 for a flight over the Tortuguero National Park area, carrying four photographers.

Central American and Caribbean Air Forces / by Dan Hagedorn
La Nacion - Oct 29, 1977

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