TACA Flight 390

TACA Flight 390
The wreckage of TACA Flight 390
Accident
Date May 30, 2008
Summary Runway overrun, Pilot error
Site Tegucigalpa, Honduras
14°04′13″N 87°12′51″W / 14.0702°N 87.2141°W / 14.0702; -87.2141Coordinates: 14°04′13″N 87°12′51″W / 14.0702°N 87.2141°W / 14.0702; -87.2141
Aircraft
Aircraft type Airbus A320-233
Operator Grupo TACA
Registration EI-TAF
Flight origin El Salvador International Airport
1st stopover Toncontin International Airport
2nd stopover Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport
Destination Miami International Airport
Passengers 118
Crew 6
Fatalities 5 (including 2 on the ground)[1]
Injuries 65
Survivors 121

TACA Flight 390 was a scheduled flight on May 30, 2008, by TACA Airlines from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Miami, Florida, United States, with intermediate stops at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras.[2] In this hull loss/fatalities accident, the Airbus A320-233 (registration EI-TAF, c/n 1374) overran the runway after landing at Tegucigalpa's Toncontín International Airport and rolled out into a street, crashing into an embankment and smashing several cars in the process.

Passengers

The flight crew included Salvadorans Captain Cesare Edoardo D'Antonio Mena and First Officer Juan Rodolfo Artero Arevalo.[3][4] All cabin crew members operating on the flight were Hondurans. The passengers consisted of:[5]

NationalityPassengersCrew
 Honduras605
 Costa Rica90
 Argentina80
 Guatemala70
 United States50
 Nicaragua30
 El Salvador31
 Mexico30
 Brazil20
 Canada20
 Colombia20
 Spain10
 Georgia10
 Germany10
 Italy10
 Uruguay10
Total 1086

A list of passengers was provided in the fifth press release on the crash from TACA Airlines. This list was in the Spanish and English sections.[6]

Five people died as a result of the accident, including Captain D'Antonio. The deceased passengers were later confirmed as Jeanne Chantal Neele, wife of Brian Michael Fraser Neele (Brazil's ambassador to Honduras), and Nicaraguan businessman Harry Brautigam, president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration; Brautigam died from a heart attack.[7] Ambassador Fraser Neele sustained injuries in the crash. The former head of the Honduran armed forces, General Daniel López Carballo, was also injured. There were two fatalities on the ground, one a taxi driver, in one of three vehicles crushed on the street by the aircraft. Mario Castillo, a survivor, said that the business class passengers sustained the most serious injuries.[1]

Investigation

Honduran authorities delegated the investigation of the accident to the Civil Aviation Authority of El Salvador as per the Convention on International Civil Aviation.[8] The accident report stated that the airplane had landed with a 12-knot tailwind, 400 meters from the displaced approach end of the runway. Since this was the first intermediate stop on a long transcontinental flight, the aircraft was near its upper landing-weight limit (63.5t vs. 64.5t maximum allowable). In addition, the runway was wet, due to the passage of Tropical Storm Alma.[9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 Honduras crash forces diversions
  2. ↑ Flightstats for TA390 SAL-TGU-SAP-MIA (May 30, 2008) Archived September 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ dantonio.pdf (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  4. ↑ artero.pdf (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  5. ↑ TACA News (Archive) TACA Airlines (September 18, 2008). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  6. ↑ Noticias GRUPO TACA BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO No. 5 Archived June 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. ↑ Five die as Honduras jet overshoots runway Archived 2012-03-24 at the Wayback Machine.." CNN.
  8. ↑ "Preliminary Report." (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved June 9, 2009.
  9. ↑ "Accident description, Friday 30 May 2008, TACA International Airlines, EI-TAF". ASN. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
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