Port-au-Prince air disaster

Accident summary
Date	December 7, 1995
Type	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	near Belle-Anse, Haiti
Passengers	18
Crew	2
Injuries	0
Fatalities	20 (all)
Survivors	0
Aircraft type	Beech 1900D
Operator	Air Saint Martin
Tail number	F-OHRK

On December 7, 1995, a chartered twin-turboprop Beechcraft 1900D commuter aircraft registered as F-OHRK and owned and operated by Air St. Martin crashed near Belle-Anse, Haiti. The flight was en route from Cayenne, French Guyana and Pointe-a-Pitre, Guadeloupe to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and had been chartered by the Government of France to return illegal immigrants to Haiti from French territory.

Investigators determined that F-OHRK had drifted ten nautical miles off course. The aircraft collided with a mountain at 5,030 feet after having been cleared by air traffic control to descend to 4,000 feet.

[edit] References

• Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network

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