Passengers 12 Aircraft type Cessna Caravan 208 Date 24 August 2008 Crew count 2 | Survivors 3 passengers Operator Aéreo Ruta Maya Injuries (nonfatal) 3 Passenger count 12 | |
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Summary Engine failure in midair Total fatalities 11 (incl. pilot and copilot) Similar 2008 Macedonian Armed Fo, 2008 Conviasa Boeing 7, 2008 Chișinău Antonov, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 122, Belavia Flight 1834 |
On August 24, 2008, an Aéreo Ruta Maya Cessna Caravan 208 carrying 10 American aid workers, two Guatemalan aid agency representatives, pilot and copilot en route from La Aurora International Airport, Guatemala City to El Estor, crashed 45 minutes after take off. The crash killed all occupants but three aid workers. The source of the crash was engine failure, as was called in by the pilot, who attempted to make an emergency landing according to the Guatemalan civil aviation director Jose Carlos. The aid workers were members of Choice Humanitarian, a West Jordan, Utah based humanitarian group on their way to the village of Sepamac.
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