ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325270
| Date: | Thursday 6 May 1993 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Shorts 330-200 |
| Owner/operator: | Atlantic Air BVI |
| Registration: | VP-LVR |
| MSN: | SH.3006 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1976 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 30 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Beef Island Airport (EIS) -
 British Virgin Islands
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Tortola-Terrance B. Lettsome International Airport, Beef Island (EIS/TUPJ) |
Overran into the sea after aborting the takeoff. All instruments etc. were removed from the plane and it was sunk in only 42 feet of water off Great Dog Island to serve as a dive site.
Sources:
Air International
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Jersey-States Airport, Channel Islands (JER); September 1987
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