en 1995 Air St. Martin Beech 1900 crash

1995 Air St. Martin Beech 1900 crash
	A French-registered Beechcraft 1900D similar to the one involved
Accident
Date	December 7, 1995
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Belle-Anse, near Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; 18°20′15″N 72°18′16″W / 18.33750°N 72.30444°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Beechcraft 1900D
Operator	Air Saint Martin
Registration	F-OHRK
Flight origin	Cayenne – Félix Eboué Airport, Cayenne, French Guiana
Stopover	Pointe-à-Pitre International Airport, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadelope
Destination	Toussaint Louverture International Airport, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Passengers	18
Crew	2
Fatalities	20
Injuries	0
Survivors	0

On December 7, 1995, a chartered twin-turboprop Beechcraft 1900D commuter aircraft registered as F-OHRK and owned and operated by Air Saint Martin crashed near Belle-Anse, Haiti. The flight was en route from Cayenne, French Guiana and Pointe-à-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. There were no survivors among its 18 passengers and 2 crew members.^[1]

Investigators determined that F-OHRK had drifted ten nautical miles off course. The aircraft collided with a mountain at 5,030 feet (1,530 m) after having been cleared by air traffic control to descend to 4,000 feet (1,200 m).^[2]