Tropical Airways

For the Tanzanian airline, see Tropical Air.

Tropical Airways

IATA ICAO Call sign M7 TBG —
Fleet size	4
Destinations	6
Headquarters	Port-au-Prince, Haiti

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

Services

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

• Domestic scheduled destinations: Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien, Jérémie and Port-de-Paix.
• International scheduled destinations: Nassau, Bahamas and Providenciales, in the Turks and Caicos Islands

Accidents and incidents

• 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

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

• 4 Let L-410 UVP[3]

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

• 1 DHC Dash 8
• 1 Cessna Grand Caravan.
• 1 Shorts SD 360-300

References

1. "AirDisaster.Com Accident Photo: Tropical Airways Let 410 HH-TAD (2)". August 25, 2006. Archived from the original on August 25, 2006.
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

External links

• Tropical Airways Haiti
• Route map
• Data and fleet info ^[permanent dead link‍]