Date:	Monday 23 October 1972
Time:
Type:	Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 Islander
Owner/operator:	Air Melanesie
Registration:	F-OCRH
MSN:	221
Year of manufacture:	1970
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 8
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	ca 20 km from Lenakel Airfield (TAH) -   Vanuatu
Phase:	Unknown
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Lenakel Airfield (TAH)
Destination airport:	Port Vila-Bauerfield Airport (VLI/NVVV)

Narrative:
The BN-2A Islander was destroyed in an accident after takeoff from Lenakel Airfield.
According to a passenger, the pilot was flying at low altitude to show cattle to a passenger. The airplane apparently hit trees and cartwheeled in a field.
The date of the accident has also been reported as October 20.

BAAA-ACRO
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
Antony Deamer (by E-mail, 3-6-2006 and 28-11-2010)

photo (c) Tom Fitzgerald; nr Lenakel Airfield (TAH); 23 October 1972

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