Tropical Airways
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| Fleet size | 4 | ||||||
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| Destinations | 6 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Port-au-Prince, Haiti | ||||||
Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Another airline using the Tropical Airways name was operating stretched Super Douglas DC-8 jetliners nonstop between New York City JFK Airport and Cheddi Jagan International Airport serving Georgetown, Guyana in 1989.[1]
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 Let L-410 Turbolet commuter turboprop airliner en route from Cap-Haïtien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field . 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 . 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:
Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:
References
- ↑ http://www.departedflights.com, Jan. 9, 1989 Official Airline Guide (OAG), New York JFK Airport flight schedules
- ↑ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
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