- Divi Divi Air Flight 014
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Divi Divi Air 014 Occurrence summary Date October 22, 2009 Type Engine failure, ditching at sea Site Off the Coast of Bonaire
12°14′30.96″N 68°32′49.40″W / 12.2419333°N 68.547056°WPassengers 9 Crew 1 Fatalities 1 (Pilot) Survivors 9 Aircraft type Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander Operator Divi Divi Air Tail number PJ-SUN Flight origin Hato International Airport, Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles Destination Flamingo International Airport, Kralendijk, Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles Divi Divi Air Flight 014 was a scheduled commuter flight from Hato International Airport in Curaçao to Flamingo International Airport in Bonaire carrying a single pilot and nine passengers, which on 22 October 2009 ditched in the Caribbean Sea off the Coast of Bonaire due to an engine failure.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was a Britten-Norman BN-2A Islander, registration PJ-SUN. The aircraft made its first flight on 12 December 1973, and was therefore almost 36 years old at the time of the accident.
Accident
The flight originated from Hato International Airport of Curaçao en-route to the Flamingo International Airport on the sister island of Bonaire. The aircraft departed from Curaçao at 09:48 with an estimated landing time of 10:13 at Bonaire. Approximately 10 minutes after departure the starbord engine failed in flight. The pilot, Robert Mansell, elected to continue the flight to Bonaire on the remaining engine and at approximately 24nm west of Bonaire, the pilot contacted Flamingo Tower and informed the controller that he was flying on one engine. Following the engine failure the aircraft started to lose altitude at a rate of about 200 feet per minute until it impacted the water at a position approximately 0.5 nm south of Klein Bonaire and 3 nm west of the main island at time 10:17.
Moments before the ditching Mansell Looked into the cabin and gave the thumbs up to the passengers, checking that their life vests were on.
During the ditching, at impact with the water surface, the cockpit door and left main landing gear were detached from the aircraft. All nine passengers survived the ditching and were rescued by a nearby diver’s boat. The passengers reported that after the ditching, the pilot was injured and appeared to be unconscious as he did not try to remove himself from the aeroplane. The pilot actually went down with the aircraft despite the efforts of some passengers who tried to remove him from his seat while the aeroplane was sinking.[1]
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