Tropical Airways
Appearance
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Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
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Destinations | 6 | ||||||
Headquarters | Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Services
[edit]As of February 2005, Tropical Airways operated the following services:
- Domestic scheduled destinations: Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien, Jérémie and Port-de-Paix.
- International scheduled destinations: Nassau, Bahamas and Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands
Accidents and incidents
[edit]- On August 24, 2003, a Tropical Airways Let L-410 Turbolet commuter turboprop airliner en route from Cap-Haïtien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field.[1] All 21 passengers died in the fiery crash. An official at Cap-Haïtien's airport said the 19-passenger aircraft departed with too many people aboard and too much baggage.[2] Witnesses on the ground say they saw smoke billowing from the plane and luggage falling out of the aircraft's rear door.
Fleet
[edit]According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:
Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:
References
[edit]- ^ "AirDisaster.Com Accident Photo: Tropical Airways Let 410 HH-TAD (2)". August 25, 2006. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006.
- ^ "Tropical Airways aircraft was allegedly overloaded before crash. | Operations > Shipping from AllBusiness.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
- ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
External links
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