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Tropical Airways

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Tropical Airways
IATA ICAO Call sign
M7 TBG
Fleet size4
Destinations6
HeadquartersPort-au-Prince, Haiti

Tropical Airways was a small airline with scheduled and charter services based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Services

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As of February 2005, Tropical Airways operated the following services:

Accidents and incidents

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  • On August 24, 2003, a Tropical Airways Let L-410 Turbolet commuter turboprop airliner en route from Cap-Haïtien to Port-de-Paix crashed in a sugar cane field.[1] All 21 passengers died in the fiery crash. An official at Cap-Haïtien's airport said the 19-passenger aircraft departed with too many people aboard and too much baggage.[2] Witnesses on the ground say they saw smoke billowing from the plane and luggage falling out of the aircraft's rear door.

Fleet

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According to Flight International magazine, the Tropical Airways fleet as of August 2006 consisted of the following aircraft:

Earlier fleet information, from February 2005, identified just three planes in the fleet:

References

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  1. ^ "AirDisaster.Com Accident Photo: Tropical Airways Let 410 HH-TAD (2)". August 25, 2006. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  2. ^ "Tropical Airways aircraft was allegedly overloaded before crash. | Operations > Shipping from AllBusiness.com". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30.
  3. ^ Flight International, 3–9 October 2006
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