West Caribbean Airways Flight 9955
Let L-410UVP-E · Stalled shortly after take-off due to engine flameout
From El Embrujo Airport (PVA) to Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 14
- Survivors
- 5
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 5
- 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
- Airline
Let L-410UVP-E
- Flight
- YH9955
- Aircraft type
- Let L-410
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- HK-4146
- Operator
- West Caribbean Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 9
- Route
- From El Embrujo Airport (PVA)To Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (ADZ)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
West Caribbean Airways Flight 9955 was a scheduled flight between Isla de Providencia and San Andres Island, Colombia that crashed on 26 March 2005, killing 9 of the 14 passengers and crew on board. It was the first fatal crash in West Caribbean Airways history.
Accident
The aircraft, a Let L-410UVP-E, had just taken off from El Embrujo Airport at 9:50. When the plane was in its takeoff roll, the left engine flamed out, but the crew continued the takeoff. When the plane reached approximately 300 feet in height, the speed of the aircraft decreased rapidly, and it banked dangerously too far to the right and stalled. The aircraft crashed into a mangrove forest, located just 113 m from the airport runway.
Both pilots and 7 of the 12 passengers were killed in the crash. One passenger initially survived the crash, but succumbed to their injuries shortly after being rescued. The survivors were taken to Hospital Clarence Lynd Newball Memorial, San Andrés and Bogotá. Providencia Island was experiencing increased activity due to the Christian Holy Week holidays at the time of the accident.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: West Caribbean Airways Flight 9955
- Revision
- 1361649045 · 2026-06-29 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q6164992
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "West Caribbean Airways Flight 9955" (page 58667890, revision 1361649045)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.