Site Near Belle-Anse, Haiti Crew 2 Survivors 0 Date 7 December 1995 Total fatalities 20 (all) Location Haiti | Passengers 18 Injuries (non-fatal) 0 Aircraft type Beechcraft 1900D Operator Air Caraïbes Survivor 0 | |
Summary Controlled flight into terrain Similar Knight Air Flight 816, Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701, Nigeria Airways Flight 357, 1995 Alaska Boeing E, Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 | ||
On December 7, 1995, a chartered twin-turboprop Beechcraft 1900D commuter aircraft registered as F-OHRK and owned and operated by Air Saint Martin crashed near Belle-Anse, Haiti. The flight was en route from Cayenne, French Guyana 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.
Investigators determined that F-OHRK had drifted ten nautical miles off course. The aircraft collided with a mountain at 5,030 feet after having been cleared by air traffic control to descend to 4,000 feet.
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