Date:	Thursday 23 September 2010
Time:	12:45
Type:	Aero Commander 500
Owner/operator:	Private
Registration:	N100PV
MSN:	784
Year of manufacture:	1959
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Substantial
Category:	Accident
Location:	1 km from Santo Domingo-Las Américas José Francisco Peña Gómez Int'l A -   Dominican Republic
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger
Departure airport:	San Juan-Isla Grande Airport (SIG/TJIG)
Destination airport:	Santo Domingo-Las Américas José Francisco Peña Gómez Int'l Airport (SD
Investigating agency:	CIAA Dom. Rep.
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The aircraft had taken off from the Isla Grande Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico, to the Dominican Republic with 2 crew and 2 passengers. While reaching 2,000 feet in altitude during descent towards Santo Domingo, and at a distance of 5 miles from the airport, the pilot felt a shaking and noticed that the engines had stopped.
The crew declared an emergency not being able to reach the airport. A forced landing was carried out approximately one kilometer to the Southeast of the threshold of runway 35.

Cause:
The pilot flew the aircraft without the fuel tank plug, placing duct tape in its place, in an attempt to replace the plug, which placed the aircraft in a non-airworthy condition. This action caused the fuel to escape through the filling mouth, causing both engines to be extinguished by starvation.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39331467
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=1384235〈=eng_news
https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2010/9/23/Twin-engine-plane-crash-near-Las-Americas-Airport-injures-4/

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


3 July 1983

N100PV

Donald Simons

0

Towanda, PA

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Date/time	Contributor	Updates
24-Sep-2010 03:37	slowkid	Added
24-Sep-2010 12:46	bizjets101	Updated [Time, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, ]
21-Dec-2016 19:25	ASN Update Bot	Updated [Time, Damage, Category, Investigating agency, ]
04-Jan-2018 10:17	harro	Updated [Time, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Narrative, ]