American Eagle Flight 5401
 Crash site of American Eagle Flight 5401 from the NTSB accident report. |
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | May 9, 2004 |
| Type | Pilot error |
| Site | Carolina, near San Juan, Puerto Rico |
| Passengers | 22 |
| Crew | 4 |
| Injuries | 17 (1 serious) |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 26 (all) |
| Aircraft type | ATR-72 |
| Operator | Executive Airlines |
| Tail number | N438AT |
| Flight origin | Eugenio María de Hostos Airport |
| Destination | Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport |
American Eagle Flight 5401 was a flight between Eugenio María de Hostos Airport in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico (an insular area of the United States) and Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan.
On the afternoon of May 9, 2004, Executive Airlines (doing business as American Eagle) Flight 5401, an Avions de Transport Regional 72-212, ATR-72 airplane (registered as N438AT) took off from Mayagüez and completed a normal flight to San Juan.
Upon landing, the aircraft skipped once, bounced hard twice, and then crashed at Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport, San Juan, Puerto Rico. The airplane came to a complete stop on a grassy area about 217 feet left of the runway 8 centerline and about 4,317 feet beyond the runway threshold. The captain was seriously injured; the first officer, 2 flight attendants, and 16 of the 22 passengers received minor injuries; and the remaining 6 passengers received no injuries. The captain was the most seriously injured onboard.[1]
As it turned out, a team of city rescuers was practicing on the beach located one block away from the airport, and they ran to the scene as soon as the airplane crashed. The airport's fire-and-rescue team also helped in the operation.
Most of the injured were taken either to Carolina area hospitals, or to Centro Médico, in Río Piedras.
The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the cause of the accident was the captain's failure to recover from the bounced landing and his subsequent failure to execute a go-around.[2]
Flight 5401 no longer operates as an American Eagle flight but instead is now used as a codeshare flight operated by Air Nostrum for Iberia between Madrid, Spain and Valencia, Spain.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?ev_id=20040510X00578&key=1
- ^ http://www.ntsb.gov/doclib/reports/2005/AAR0502.pdf
[edit] External links
- NTSB brief short factual summary on flight 5401
- Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network, includes crash photographs
- NTSB Accident Investigation Animation of EGF5401
- NTSB accident report the full 118-page NTSB document on the crash
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- Aviation accidents and incidents in the United States in 2004
- 2004 in Puerto Rico
- Aviation accidents and incidents in 2004
- Airliner accidents and incidents caused by pilot error
- American Airlines accidents and incidents
- Airliner accidents and incidents in Puerto Rico
- Accidents and incidents involving the ATR 72
- Carolina, Puerto Rico
