Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
30MAY2008 at 0940LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
EI-TAF
Location
 
Tegucigalpa
   
Flight number
  TA390
Schedule
 
San Salvador - Tegucigalpa -
Miami
 
Construction number
 
1374
Year of manufacture
 
2000
     
Crew on board
 
6
Pax on board
 
118
Crew fatalities
 
1
Pax fatalities
 
2
Other fatalities
 
2
Total fatalities
 
5

Circumstances
 
On landing on runway 02, the aircraft did not decelerate as expected and overrun. It came onto a street, destroyed several cars and came to rest in a wall. The captain and two passengers were killed as two other people in ground vehicles. At least 81 passengers were injured. The aircraft was destroyed. At the time of the accident, the tropical depression called Alma hung over the city with high winds and strong rains.
 
   




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