Tropical Airways
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Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The company is open as of January 2007 operating with LET airplanes.
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[edit] Code Data
[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.
In 2007, Tropical Airways operated the following services:
- Domestic scheduled destinations in Sudan out of Khartoum Airport
- International scheduled destinations: Nairobi, Kenya.
[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:
Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just two planes in the fleet:
[edit] External links
The domain for the Tropical Airways expired on November 9, 2006. No further website information is available.
[edit] References
- ^ Airline Codes
- ^ Flight International, 3-9 October 2006
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