Air America Accident Puerto Rico

We had an awesome trip to puerto rico including flying on air flamenco from ceiba to culebra on june 1.

Air america accident puerto rico.

Police said the piper aztec plane owned by local carrier vieques air link hit the masts of two sailboats before crashing into the san juan bay. The plane is owned by air america a puerto rico based charter flight company hernandez said. Two days later we were on the beach in isla verde when we saw billowing black smoke in the distance around a bend in the beach we learned later that a plane flying from the main airport to culebra had crashed just off the coast and a teenager from georgia was killed. The plane s pilot jose diaz 22 of puerto rico also was also injured when the air america plane crashed off the coast of pinones east of san juan according to the associated press.

Department of transportation s federal aviation administration faa has issued an emergency order of revocation against air america inc. The director of rescue at the island s emergency management agency said scuba divers have been dispatched to the plane crash site in the ocean to rescue the injured and. Of carolina puerto rico for allegedly conducting passenger carrying flights using a pilot who had not received enough rest using an unqualified pilot operating aircraft when they were overweight and not properly loaded and.