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2008 Blue Wing Airlines An-28 crash

2008 aviation accident in Suriname

Field	Value
name	Benzdorp An-28 crash
occurrence_type	Accident
image	Bluewingantonov.jpg
caption	A Blue Wing Airlines Antonov An-28 similar to the accident aircraft
date
type	Controlled flight into terrain
site	Lawa Antino Airstrip,
Benzdorp, Suriname
aircraft_type	Antonov An-28
operator	Blue Wing Airlines
tail_number	PZ-TSO
origin	Zorg en Hoop Airport, Paramaribo, Suriname
stopover	Lawa Antino Airport, Benzdorp, Suriname
destination	Lawa Antino Airport, Benzdorp, Suriname
occupants	19
passengers	17
crew	2
fatalities	19
survivors	0

Benzdorp, Suriname On 3 April 2008, a Blue Wing Airlines Antonov An-28 registered as PZ-TSO) crashed upon landing at Lawa Antino Airport in Benzdorp, Suriname. The plane carried 17 passengers and a crew of 2, all of whom perished. The crash occurred at around 11:00 am ART (14:00 UTC). Initial media reports indicated that the airplane had to abort the landing, as the runway was being used by another Blue Wing Airlines Anotnov An-28. The airplane attempted a go-around, but failed to gain height and crashed into a mountain.

Casualties

The pilot, Soeriani Jhauw-Verkuijl, was the wife of Blue Wing Airlines president Amichand Jhauw. Her brother and colleague was an eyewitness to the crash. Also among the casualties was co-pilot Robert Lackin, as well as a family of six from Antécume-Pata, citizens of French Guiana. They were to have flown on to Anapaike.

A Dutch national police forensic team was dispatched to assist in the identification of victims. While nine of the victims were identified in Suriname, the last ten were identified, using DNA analysis, by a Dutch forensic institute.

Flight

The plane had taken off from Zorg en Hoop Airport in Paramaribo with seventeen passengers and two crew at 10:00 local time. Eleven were due to disembark at Lawa Antino airstrip, 10 km west of the southeastern gold mining town of Benzdorp, near the Lawa River bordering French Guiana. They were preparing to work for telecommunications company Telesur.

References

(2008-04-04). "Negentien doden bij ongeluk met toestel Blue Wing". [[Dagblad Suriname]].
(2008-04-03). "Vliegramp in Suriname: negentien doden". [[Trouw]].
Ivan Cairo. (2008-04-03). "Twenty feared dead in Suriname plane crash". Caribbean Net News.
(2008-04-03). "Vliegtuigcrash in Lawa gebied. Alle 19 inzittenden om het leven gekomen". [[Radio10]].
Ivan Cairo. (2008-04-05). "Authorities launch formal investigation into Suriname plane crash". Caribbean Net News.
[http://www.nu.nl/algemeen/1565089/slachtoffers-surinaamse-vliegramp-geidentificeerd.html [Suriname plane crash victims identified] ] 13 May 2008 (in Dutch)
(2008-04-05). "Forensic teams head to site of Suriname plane crash". Agence France Press.
"Reunion Gold Antino project".

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