Vieques air link flight

Vieques air link flight

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• Vieques
• air
• link
• flight

[miamivic]

Vieques Air Link Crash1 Dec. 19, 1977 St Croix to Vieques 9 passenger 1 crew fatalities 5 passenger 0 crew The plane made a forced landing in the ocean. Fuel exhaustion. Inadequate preflight planning. Mismanagement of fuel. Vieques Air Link Crash2 Aug 2, 1984 Vieques to St Croix 9 passenger 1 crew fatalities 9 passenger 1 crew Banked to the left shortly after taking off and crashed into the ocean. Aircraft overloaded and improperly loaded. Inexperienced pilot. Water contamination of fuel.

[miamivic]

You're brave. I probably flew in that very same airplane 8-10 times from 1980-1984 when I was 14 and 1984 was the last time we ever came in one of those after one crashed on Aug 2nd 1984 after water had leaked into the underground fuel tanks in Vieques.

Luckily there have only been 2 crashes which is an exceptional record for the Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander N589SA but keep in mind this British aircraft was built in 1965, during the Vietnam War.

[VImessenjah]

I flew in one of these years ago from St Croix to Vieques, I enjoyed it better than those Eastern Metro planes! Thanks for the video