1995 Air St. Martin Beech 1900 crash | |
Date: | December 7, 1995 |
Type: | Controlled flight into terrain |
Occurrence Type: | Accident |
Site: | Belle-Anse, near Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Fatalities: | 20 |
Injuries: | 0 |
Aircraft Type: | Beechcraft 1900D |
Operator: | Air Saint Martin |
Tail Number: | F-OHRK |
Origin: | Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport, Cayenne, French Guiana |
Stopover: | Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadelope |
Destination: | Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti |
Passengers: | 18 |
Crew: | 2 |
Survivors: | 0 |
On December 7, 1995, a chartered twin-turboprop Beechcraft 1900D commuter aircraft registered as and owned and operated by Air Saint Martin crashed near Belle-Anse, Haiti. The flight was en route from Cayenne, French Guiana and Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had been chartered by the Government of France to return illegal immigrants to Haiti from French territory. There were no survivors among its 18 passengers and 2 crew members.[1]
Investigators determined that F-OHRK had drifted ten nautical miles off course. The aircraft collided with a mountain at 5030feet after having been cleared by air traffic control to descend to 4000feet.[2]