Turks and Caicos Island Crash, 12 Missing.
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What: Linea Aerea Puertorriquena (LAP)’s Atlantis Airlines Britten-Norman BN-2A Trislander Mk.III-2 en route from Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic to Managua, Bahamas, registration N650LP. The airport of departure was Santiago de los Caballeros-Cibao International Airport (STI/MDST) and the scheduled destination was Mayaguana Airport
Where: off the coast of the Turks and Caicos Islands
When: Monday December 15, 2008
Who: 1 pilot, 11 passengers missing.
Why: The flight’s mayday call was picked up on Monday 16 miles off the coast of Providenciales. Rescue effort were called off Monday due to adverse weather conditions
The BN-2A Trislander en route from Santiago de los Caballeros-Cibao International Airport Dominican Republic to Mayaguana Bahamas. It departed at 16:06. An hour into the flight, the pilot contacted Providenciales ATC reporting an emergency. The airplane crashed shortly after the distress call. Asociación Nacional de Pilotos reported that the pilot’s licence was suspended in October 2006.