Blue Wing Airlines 2008 plane crash

Coordinates: 03°41′N 054°05′W / 3.683°N 54.083°W / 3.683; -54.083

Benzdorp An-28 crash
Accident
Date 11:00, April 3, 2008 (2008-04-03T11:00)
Summary CFIT
Site Lawa Antino Airstrip,
Benzdorp, Suriname
Aircraft
Aircraft type Antonov An-28
Operator Blue Wing Airlines
official site
Registration PZ-TSO
Flight 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
Injuries 0
Survivors 0

On Thursday, April 3, 2008, an Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines (registration PZ-TSO[1]) crashed upon landing at the Lawa Antino Airport of Benzdorp in Suriname.[2][3] The plane carried 17 passengers and a crew of 2, all of whom died in the crash.[4]

The crash occurred around 11:00 ART (14:00 UTC). Initial media reports indicate 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 the Dutch forensic institute.[11]

Background

The Antino project sits on part of a rich gold deposit that has been mined since the 1880s. The carrier flies scheduled An-28 flights Monday through Saturday to Antino site 7, where there is a 600-metre gravel strip.[12]

Flight

The plane had taken off from Zorg en Hoop Airport in Suriname's capital Paramaribo with seventeen passengers and two crew at 10:00 local time.[13] 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,[14] where they would work for telecommunications company Telesur.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Negentien doden bij ongeluk met toestel Blue Wing". Dagblad Suriname. 2008-04-04. Archived from the original on September 6, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  2. ↑ "Plane crashes in southern Surinam". BBC News. 2008-04-03. Archived from the original on 7 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  3. ↑ "Twintig doden door vliegtuigramp Suriname" (in Dutch). Nu.nl. 2008-04-03. Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  4. ↑ "Vliegramp in Suriname: negentien doden" (in Dutch). Trouw. 2008-04-03. Archived from the original on April 30, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  5. ↑ Ivan Cairo (2008-04-03). "Twenty feared dead in Suriname plane crash". Caribbean Net News. Archived from the original on May 26, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  6. 1 2 3 "Vliegtuigcrash in Lawa gebied. Alle 19 inzittenden om het leven gekomen" (in Dutch). Radio10. 2008-04-03. Archived from the original on July 25, 2011. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  7. ↑ "'Motoruitval oorzaak vliegramp Suriname'" (in Dutch). Novum/Elsevier. 2008-04-05. Archived from the original on 2008-04-12. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
  8. ↑ Ivan Cairo (2008-04-05). "Authorities launch formal investigation into Suriname plane crash". Caribbean Net News. Archived from the original on June 6, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
  9. ↑ "Nederlands team op weg naar Suriname" (in Dutch). Trouw. 2008-04-04. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  10. ↑ "Nederlandse hulp voor Suriname na vliegramp" (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 2008-04-04. Archived from the original on 2008-04-07. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
  11. ↑ [Suriname plane crash victims identified] 13 May 2008 (in Dutch)
  12. ↑ Adrian Fleming (2006). "Technical report: Antino Gold Project, Suriname, South America" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 9 April 2008. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
  13. ↑ "Forensic teams head to site of Suriname plane crash". Agence France Press. 2008-04-05. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011. Retrieved 2008-04-06.
  14. ↑ "Reunion Gold Antino project". Archived from the original on September 14, 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-03.
  15. ↑ "Met innige deelneming..." (in Dutch). Telesur. 2008-04-04. Archived from the original on 22 April 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-04.
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