ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 33296
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| Date: | Monday 16 November 1998 |
| Time: | day |
| Type: |  Bell 206B-2 JetRanger II |
| Owner/operator: | Aerotaxi Internacional SA |
| Registration: | HP-1323X |
| MSN: | 2089 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1977 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Atlantic Ocean, off Punta Piedra -
 Honduras
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Ambulance |
| Departure airport: | Cusuma, near Punta Piedra, Honduras |
| Trujillo, Honduras | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Written off (destroyed) 16-11-1998: The helicopter was destroyed when it crashed into the sea off Punta Peidra, Honduras. According to a contemporary newspaper report (see link #1):
"TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras (AP) — A helicopter on a mercy flight for victims of Hurricane Mitch crashed off Honduras' Atlantic coast, killing three people, officials said Thursday. The Paris-based aid group Doctors Without Borders, which was operating the flight, said an Australian doctor, a Panamanian pilot and a Honduran patient died in the crash Monday.
Honduras' Civil Aviation Director Luis Rolando Leiva said locals of Punta Piedra, about 170 miles northeast of the capital, pulled the bodies from the sea onto the beach. Leiva identified the aircraft as a Panamanian-registered Bell 206 helicopter. The aid group said it had left the town of Cusuma, near Punta Piedra, on Monday to evacuate a patient to Trujillo. The helicopter apparently crashed not far from where it took off, though Leiva said the aircraft had not been found
Leiva identified the Australian doctor as Jane Connor, 29, and the Panamanian pilot as Javier Armando Alvarado, 26. He said officials did not yet know the name of the Honduran man. Leiva said local residents had seen the crash, but had been unable to report it until Wednesday because of a lack of communications in the area hit late last month by the hurricane, which officials say killed more than 7,000 people in Honduras".
Sources:
1. November 20, 1998 Edition of The Kokomo Tribune from Kokomo, Indiana · Page 6
2. http://www.ascendworldwide.com/download/Cust/WAAS167_Complete.pdf
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 22-Aug-2016 12:34 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Damage, Narrative] |
| 22-Aug-2016 12:35 | Dr.John Smith | Updated [Narrative] |
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