- Tropical Airways
Infobox Airline
airline = Tropical Airways
logo_size = 400
fleet_size = 4
destinations = 6
IATA = M7
ICAO = TBG
callsign = -
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headquarters =Port-au-Prince ,Haiti
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website =Tropical Airways was a small
airline with scheduled and charter services based inPort-au-Prince ,Haiti .ervices
As of
February 2005 , Tropical Airways operated the following services:*Domestic scheduled destinations:
Port-au-Prince toCap-Haïtien ,Jérémie andPort-de-Paix .
*International scheduled destinations:Nassau, Bahamas andProvidenciales , in theTurks and Caicos Islands Incidents and accidents
*On
August 24 ,2003 , A Tropical AirwaysL-410 en route fromCap-Haitien toPort-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field [http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/hh-tad/2.shtml] . 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 [http://www.allbusiness.com/operations/shipping-air-freight/628742-1.html#] . 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:
*4 Let L-410 UVP [Flight International , 3-9 October 2006]Earlier fleet information, from February
2005 , identified just two planes in the fleet:
*1 DHC Dash 8
*1 Cessna Grand Caravan.
*1 Shorts SD 360-300External links
The domain for the Tropical Airways expired on November 9, 2006. No further website information is available.
* [http://www.airlineroutemaps.com/Latin_America/Tropical_Airways_Haiti.shtml Route map]
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20030824-0 Accident report]
* [http://www.airdisaster.com/photos/hh-tad/photo.shtml LET 410 accident photo]
* [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-107051045.html Travel warning]
* [http://rzjets.net/operators/operator.php?opid=3516 Data and fleet info]References
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