Blue Wing Airlines 2008 plane crash

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Benzdorp An-28 crash
Antonow An-28 by Rob Vogelaar 1991.jpg
An Antonov An-28 similar to the crash aircraft
Accident summary
Date 11:00, April 3, 2008 (2008-04-03T11:00)
Summary CFIT
Site Lawa Antino Airstrip,
Benzdorp, Suriname
Passengers 17
Crew 2
Injuries (non-fatal) 0
Fatalities 19
Survivors 0
Aircraft type Antonov An-28
Operator Blue Wing Airlines
official site
Registration PZ-TSO
Flight origin Zorg en Hoop Airport,
Paramaribo, Suriname
Stopover Lawa Antino Airport,
ICAO code SMAN
Benzdorp, Suriname
Destination Lawa Antino Airport of Benzdorp in Suriname

On Thursday, April 3, 2008, an Antonov An-28 operated by Blue Wing Airlines (registration PZ-TSO[1]) crashed upon landing at the Lawa Antino Airport of Benzdorp in Suriname.[2][3] The plane carried 17 passengers and a crew of 2, all of who died in the crash.[4]

The crash occurred around 11:00 ART (14:00 UTC). Initial media reports indicate that the airplane had to abort the landing, as the runway was being used by another Bluewing AN-28 aircraft. [5] The airplane attempted a go-around, but failed to gain height and crashed into a mountain.[6]

Casualties

The pilot, Soeriani Jhauw-Verkuijl, was the wife of Blue Wing Airlines president Amichand Jhauw. Her brother and colleague was an eyewitness to the crash.[6]

Also among the casualties was co-pilot Robert Lackin, as well as a family of six from Antecume Pata, citizens of French Guiana.[7][8] They were to have flown on to Anapaike.[6]

A Dutch national police forensic team was dispatched to assist in the identification of victims.[9][10] While nine of the victims were identified in Suriname, the last ten were identified, using DNA analysis, by the Dutch forensic institute.[11]

Background

The Antino project sits on part of a rich gold deposit that has been mined since the 1880s. The carrier flies scheduled An-28 flights Monday through Saturday to Antino site 7, where there is a 600-metre gravel strip.[12]

Flight

The plane had taken off from Zorg en Hoop Airport in Suriname's capital Paramaribo with seventeen passengers and two crew at 10:00 local time.[13] Eleven were due to disembark at Lawa Antino airstrip, 10 km west of the southeastern gold mining town of Benzdorp, near the Lawa River bordering French Guiana,[14] where they would work for telecommunications company Telesur.[15]

References

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  11. ↑ [Suriname plane crash victims identified] 13 May 2008 (in Dutch)
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