ERA19WA054 · Eurocopter EC120 B
IMFESA Air Service Eurocopter EC120 B · Accident on approach
From Río San Juan to Casa De Campo International Airport (MDLR)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA19WA054
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · CIAA final report, 25 Nov 2021
- API-reported fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Eurocopter EC120 B
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter EC120
- Category
- Helicopter
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- N124ML
- Operator
- IMFESA Air Service
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Río San JuanTo Casa De Campo International Airport (MDLR), La Romana
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Approach
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
The government of Dominican Republic has notified the NTSB of an accident involving a Eurocopter EC120 helicopter that occurred on November 22, 2018. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the government of Dominican Republic's investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.All investigative information will be released by the government of Dominican Republic.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA19WA054
- Event ID
- 20181126X55544
- Case number
- ERA19WA054
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 6c091d8ad45b474b3ce04eb0c12ac14debd9b496b4413fe1607781b194a4951d; retrieved 2026-09-15T06:51:25.785Z.
- Checked against the Comisión Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), República Dominicana final report (2021-11-25) on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, ground fatalities, fatalities, registration, destination and damage. Taken from the report: operator and type of operation. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: departure (shown Río San Juan; report Hotel Amanera helipad). Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number and aircraft type.