Central American Airways Flight 731, crashed near airport

14 February 2011

Central American Airways Flight CAI-731 , LET L-410 registration HR-AUQ from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa Honduaras with 12 passengers and 2 crew members on board it was approaching Toncontin international airport runway 02 at 8.04 local time when airplane impacted trees and after ground around 7nm from airport.Everybody killed

At the time of accident it was fog in the area.Also area elevetion it is 5412 feet

One year after the Honduras' Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil released the final report about the accident.You can read here in spanish

Probable causes were the weather in area with reduced visibility and low clouds with strong winds.Also the crew didn't follow the proper instrument approach procedures

Airplane had gone around before while was approaching runway 20 because they couldn't see runway

They released also one photo below that you can see that captain's altimeter and F/O are showing different altitude

Airplane it was configured for landing too early , something that reducing the handling capability of airplane

Metars

MHTG 141500Z 35014KT 5000 VCSH FEW007 BKN020 19/15 Q1023 A3021 NOSIG
MHTG 141400Z 36009KT 5000 VCSH FEW007 BKN020 17/14 Q1022 A3018 NOSIG

HR-AUQ

First flight:1991

Age:20 years

Engines:2 Walter M-601E

photos from Honduras' Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil

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