Tropical Airways

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Tropical Airways
TropicalAirways.jpg
IATA ICAO Callsign
M7 TBG
Fleet size4
Destinations6
HeadquartersPort-au-Prince, Haiti

Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Another airline using the Tropical Airways name was operating stretched Super Douglas DC-8 jetliners nonstop between New York City JFK Airport and Cheddi Jagan International Airport serving Georgetown, Guyana in 1989.[1]

Services[]

As of February 2005, Tropical Airways operated the following services:

Accidents and incidents[]

  • 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.[2] 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.[3] Witnesses on the ground say they saw smoke billowing from the plane and luggage falling out of the aircraft's rear door.

Fleet[]

According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:

  • 4 Let L-410 UVP[4]

Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:

  • 1 DHC Dash 8
  • 1 Cessna Grand Caravan.
  • 1 Shorts SD 360-300

References[]

  1. ^ http://www.departedflights.com, Jan. 9, 1989 Official Airline Guide (OAG), New York JFK Airport flight schedules
  2. ^ "AirDisaster.Com Accident Photo: Tropical Airways Let 410 HH-TAD (2)". August 25, 2006. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping-air-freight/628742-1.html#[bare URL]
  4. ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006

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