Date: 14 FEB 2011
Time: 08:02
Type: Let L-410UVP-E20
Operator: Central American Airways - CAA
Registration: HR-AUQ
C/n / msn: 912603
First flight: 1991
Engines: 2 Walter M-601E
Crew: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers: Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12
Total: Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 14
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: near Cerro de Hula (Honduras)
Phase: En route (ENR)
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: San Pedro Sula-Ramon Villeda Morales Airport (SAP) (SAP/MHLM), Honduras Destination airport: Tegucigalpa-Toncontin Airport (TGU) (TGU/MHTG), Honduras
Flightnumber: 731
Narrative:
A Let L-410 passenger plane, HR-AUQ, was destroyed in an accident near Cerro de Hula, Honduras. All 12 passengers and two crew members on board were killed. The airplane operated on Central American Airways flight 731 from San Pedro Sula (SAP) to Tegucigalpa (TGU).
The flight had departed San Pedro Sula at 07:04 for the fourty minute flight to Tegucigalpa. The airplane crashed in a forest at 08:02.
Weather about the time of the accident (08:00 local / 14:00 UTC) was:
MHTG 141400Z 36009KT 5000 VCSH FEW007 BKN020 17/14 Q1022 A3018 NOSIG=
[Wind 360 degrees at 9 knots; Visibility 5000m; Showers in the vicinity; Few clouds 700 ft., broken clouds 2,000 ft.; Temperature 17°C; Dew point 14°C; 1022 hPa