Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
02JUL2004 at 1338LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
N280AT
Location
 
Panama City
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Quito - Panama City - Washington DC - Milan
 
Construction number
 
247
Year of manufacture
 
1978
     
Crew on board
 
2
Pax on board
 
4
Crew fatalities
 
2
Pax fatalities
 
4
Other fatalities
 
1
Total fatalities
 
7

Circumstances
   
 
The twinjet aircraft was performing an ambulance flight between Quito, Ecuador, and Milan, Italy, with fuel stops in Panama City and Washington DC with 2 crew, 2 medical doctors and 2 Italian patients on board. After takeoff from Panama City runway 03R, crew lost control of the aircraft which crashed into a former Evergreen International hangar. All occupants and one man on ground were killed.


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