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TACA Flight 390

Coordinates: 14°04′13″N 87°12′51″W / 14.0702°N 87.2141°W / 14.0702; -87.2141
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TACA Flight 390
The wreckage of TACA Flight 390
Accident
DateMay 30, 2008
SummaryRunway overrun, Pilot error
SiteTegucigalpa, Honduras
14°04′13″N 87°12′51″W / 14.0702°N 87.2141°W / 14.0702; -87.2141
Aircraft
Aircraft typeAirbus A320-233
OperatorGrupo TACA
RegistrationEI-TAF
Flight originEl Salvador International Airport
1st stopoverToncontin International Airport
2nd stopoverRamón Villeda Morales International Airport
DestinationMiami International Airport
Passengers118
Crew6
Fatalities5 (including 2 on the ground)[1]
Injuries65
Survivors121

TACA Flight 390 was a scheduled flight on May 30, 2008, by TACA Airlines from San Salvador, El Salvador, to Miami, Florida, United States, with intermediate stops at Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula in Honduras.[2] In this hull loss/fatalities accident, the Airbus A320-233 (registration EI-TAF, c/n 1374) overran the runway after landing at Tegucigalpa's Toncontín International Airport and rolled out into a street, crashing into an embankment and smashing several cars in the process.

Passengers

The flight crew included Salvadorans Captain Cesare Edoardo D'Antonio Mena and First Officer Juan Rodolfo Artero Arevalo.[3][4] All cabin crew members operating on the flight were Hondurans. The passengers consisted of:[5]

Nationality Passengers Crew
 Honduras 60 5
 Costa Rica 9 0
 Argentina 8 0
 Guatemala 7 0
 United States 5 0
 Nicaragua 3 0
 El Salvador 3 1
 Mexico 3 0
 Brazil 2 0
 Canada 2 0
 Colombia 2 0
 Spain 1 0
 Georgia 1 0
 Germany 1 0
 Italy 1 0
 Uruguay 1 0
Total 108 6

A list of passengers was provided in the fifth press release on the crash from TACA Airlines. This list was in the Spanish and English sections.[6]

Five people died as a result of the accident, including Captain D'Antonio. The deceased passengers were later confirmed as Jeanne Chantal Neele, wife of Brian Michael Fraser Neele (Brazil's ambassador to Honduras), and Nicaraguan businessman Harry Brautigam, president of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration; Brautigam died from a heart attack.[7] Ambassador Fraser Neele sustained injuries in the crash. The former head of the Honduran armed forces, General Daniel López Carballo, was also injured. There were two fatalities on the ground, one a taxi driver, in one of three vehicles crushed on the street by the aircraft. Mario Castillo, a survivor, said that the business class passengers sustained the most serious injuries.[1]

Investigation

Honduran authorities delegated the investigation of the accident to the Civil Aviation Authority of El Salvador as per the Convention on International Civil Aviation.[8] The accident report stated that the airplane had landed with a 12-knot tailwind, 400 meters from the displaced approach end of the runway. Since this was the first intermediate stop on a long transcontinental flight, the aircraft was near its upper landing-weight limit (63.5t vs. 64.5t maximum allowable). In addition, the runway was wet, due to the passage of Tropical Storm Alma.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Honduras crash forces diversions
  2. ^ Flightstats for TA390 SAL-TGU-SAP-MIA (May 30, 2008)[dead link]
  3. ^ dantonio.pdf (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  4. ^ artero.pdf (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  5. ^ TACA News (Archive) TACA Airlines (September 18, 2008). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
  6. ^ Noticias GRUPO TACA BOLETÍN INFORMATIVO No. 5 Archived June 2, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ Five die as Honduras jet overshoots runway." CNN.
  8. ^ "Preliminary Report." (Archive) Civil Aviation Authority (El Salvador). Retrieved June 9, 2009.
  9. ^ "Accident description, Friday 30 May 2008, TACA International Airlines, EI-TAF". ASN. Retrieved 19 June 2014.
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