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What: Divi Divi Air Britten-Norman BN2 A Islander en route from Curacao to Bonaire Netherlands Antilles
Where: Caribbean
When: Oct 22nd 2009
Who: 9 passengers and 1 pilot
Why: When the plane experienced engine failure, the flight ditched in the Carribean. The pilot, Robert Marcel, was knocked unconscious on impact.

Passengers were rescued by boat. The unconscious captain could not be freed from his seat harness and the plane sank with him aboard.

George’s Point of View

Condolences to the family of Robert Marcel.