Tropical Airways

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Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It appears to have gone out of business in 2006.

Contents 1 Code Data 2 Services 3 Incidents and accidents 4 Fleet 5 External links 6 References

[edit] Code Data

• IATA Code: M7
• ICAO Code: TBG ^[1]

[edit] 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.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

• On August 24, 2003, A Tropical Airways L-410 en route from Cap-Haitien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field [1]. All 21 passengers died in the fiery crash. An official at Cap Haitien'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.

[edit] Fleet

According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:

• 4 Let L-410 UVP ^[2]

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

• 1 DHC Dash 8
• 1 Cessna Grand Caravan.

[edit] External links

The domain for the Tropical Airways expired on November 9, 2006. No further website information is available.

[edit] References

1. ^ Airline Codes
2. ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006