2008 Blue Wing Airlines An-28 crash explained

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Benzdorp An-28 crash
Occurrence Type:Accident
Site:Lawa Antino Airstrip,
Benzdorp, Suriname
Aircraft Type:Antonov An-28
Operator:Blue Wing Airlines
official site
Tail Number:PZ-TSO
Origin:Zorg en Hoop Airport,
Paramaribo, Suriname
Stopover:Lawa Antino Airport,
ICAO code SMAN
Benzdorp, Suriname
Destination:Lawa Antino Airport of Benzdorp in Suriname
Passengers:17
Crew:2
Fatalities:19
Survivors:0

On Thursday, April 3, 2008, an Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines (registration PZ-TSO[1]) crashed upon landing at Lawa Antino Airport in Benzdorp, Suriname.[2] [3] The plane carried 17 passengers and a crew of 2, all of whom perished.[4] The crash occurred around 11:00 am ART (14:00 UTC). Initial media reports indicated that the airplane had to abort the landing, as the runway was being used by another Bluewing AN-28 aircraft.[5] The airplane attempted a go-around, but failed to gain height and crashed into a mountain.[6]

Casualties

The pilot, Soeriani Jhauw-Verkuijl, was the wife of Blue Wing Airlines president Amichand Jhauw. Her brother and colleague was an eyewitness to the crash.[6] Also among the casualties was co-pilot Robert Lackin, as well as a family of six from Antecume Pata, citizens of French Guiana.[7] [8] They were to have flown on to Anapaike.[6]

A Dutch national police forensic team was dispatched to assist in the identification of victims.[9] [10] While nine of the victims were identified in Suriname, the last ten were identified, using DNA analysis, by a Dutch forensic institute.[11]

Flight

The plane had taken off from Zorg en Hoop Airport in Paramaribo with seventeen passengers and two crew at 10:00 local time.[12] Eleven were due to disembark at Lawa Antino airstrip, 10 km west of the southeastern gold mining town of Benzdorp, near the Lawa River bordering French Guiana.[13] They were preparing to work for telecommunications company Telesur.[14]

Notes and References

  1. News: Negentien doden bij ongeluk met toestel Blue Wing . 2008-04-04 . 2008-04-04 . . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080906160510/http://www.dbsuriname.com/archief/nat/2008/apr08/04-04-08/Nat_Negentien%20doden%20bij%20ongeluk%20met%20toestel%20Blue%20Wing%20.asp . September 6, 2008 .
  2. News: Plane crashes in southern Surinam . 2008-04-03 . 2008-04-04 . BBC News. https://web.archive.org/web/20080407193747/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7329392.stm. 7 April 2008 . live.
  3. News: Twintig doden door vliegtuigramp Suriname . 2008-04-03 . 2008-04-04 . Nu.nl . nl. https://web.archive.org/web/20080404154330/http://www.nu.nl/news/1510126/20/Twintig_doden_door_vliegtuigramp_Suriname.html. 4 April 2008 . live.
  4. News: Vliegramp in Suriname: negentien doden . 2008-04-03 . 2008-04-04 . . nl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080430005759/http://www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/wereld/article957455.ece/Vliegramp_in_Suriname_negentien_doden . April 30, 2008 .
  5. News: Ivan Cairo . Twenty feared dead in Suriname plane crash . Caribbean Net News . 2008-04-03 . 2008-04-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080526032159/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-6978--36-36--.html . May 26, 2008 .
  6. News: Vliegtuigcrash in Lawa gebied. Alle 19 inzittenden om het leven gekomen . 2008-04-03 . 2008-04-04 . . nl . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110725084308/http://radio10.sr/content/view/2657/ . July 25, 2011 .
  7. News: 'Motoruitval oorzaak vliegramp Suriname' . 2008-04-05 . 2008-04-07 . . nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20080412024345/http://www.elsevier.nl/nieuws/laatste_24_uur/artikel/asp/artnr/200311/ . 2008-04-12 . dead .
  8. News: Authorities launch formal investigation into Suriname plane crash . 2008-04-05 . Ivan Cairo . Caribbean Net News . 2008-04-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080606010734/http://www.caribbeannetnews.com/news-7022--36-36--.html . June 6, 2008 .
  9. News: Nederlands team op weg naar Suriname . . 2008-04-04 . 2008-04-04 . nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20190123184119/https://www.trouw.nl/hetnieuws/nederland/article957766.ece/Nederlands_team_op_weg_naar_Suriname . 2019-01-23 . dead .
  10. News: Nederlandse hulp voor Suriname na vliegramp . https://web.archive.org/web/20080407234717/http://www.nrc.nl/buitenland/article1037774.ece/Nederlandse_hulp_voor_Suriname_na_vliegramp . dead . 2008-04-07 . . 2008-04-04 . 2008-04-04 . nl .
  11. http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/1565089/slachtoffers-surinaamse-vliegramp-geidentificeerd.html [Suriname plane crash victims identified] ] 13 May 2008 (in Dutch)
  12. News: Forensic teams head to site of Suriname plane crash . Agence France Press . 2008-04-05 . 2008-04-06 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110520125449/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsrxO3F9MZERza9ZUUDCeTF1yTLg . May 20, 2011 .
  13. Web site: Reunion Gold Antino project . 2008-04-03 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080914143416/http://www.reuniongold.com/s/Antino1.asp?ReportID=151949 . September 14, 2008 .
  14. News: Met innige deelneming... . Telesur . 2008-04-04 . 2008-04-04 . nl . https://web.archive.org/web/20080422061504/http://www.telesur.sr/website/nieuws.asp?id=285&menuid=25 . 22 April 2008 . dead .

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