Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
02NOV2003 at 2331LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
N630HA
Location
 
Kralendijk
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Oranjestad - Kralendijk
 
Construction number
 
630
Year of manufacture
 
1974
     
Crew on board
 
1
Pax on board
 
0
Crew fatalities
 
0
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
0

Circumstances
   
 
The pilot left Oranjestad airport (Aruba Island) at 2250LT for a trip to Kralendijk-Flamingo airport, on Bonaire Island, also in the Netherlands Antilles. On final approach, both engine lost power and the aircraft descended before colliding with terrain 300 metres short of runway. The pilot was seriously injured and the aircraft destroyed. The CAA showed that the airplane did not contain any usable fuel and there was no evidence of fuel leakage from the airplane prior to the accident.
   


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