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TBG

Headquarters
  
Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Fleet size
  
4

Destinations
  
6

Founded
  
1999

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

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Services

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

  • Domestic scheduled destinations: Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien, Jérémie and Port-de-Paix.
  • International scheduled destinations: Nassau, Bahamas and Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands

    • Accidents and incidents

  • On August 24, 2003, A Tropical Airways L-410 en route from Cap-Haïtien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field [1]. 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 [2]. 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

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

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

    • References

    Tropical Airways Wikipedia
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