Trans Guyana Airways Flight 700
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan · Off-airport emergency landing after engine failure
From Olive Creek Airport, Guyana to Imbaimadai Airport, Guyana
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA14WA100
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane
- 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
- 8R-GHS
- Operator
- Trans Guyana Airways
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Olive Creek Airport, GuyanaTo Imbaimadai Airport, Guyana
- Aircraft age
- About 14 years (built 2000)
- 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., 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Trans Guyana Airways Flight 700 (IATA flight number: TG700, ICAO: TGY700, callsign: TRANS GUYANA 700) was a cargo flight of Trans Guyana Airways from Olive Creek to Imbaimadai. On 18 January 2014, a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan operating this flight had to make an emergency off-airport landing following an engine failure. Both occupants of the aircraft were killed in the incident.
Sequence of the accident
The aircraft lifted off in Olive Creek at 10:54. The load consisted of fuel and other goods for supplying gold mines. Two and a half minutes after takeoff, an engine failure occurred and the aircraft lost power and altitude. The pilot had to set the aircraft down in a densely forested and slightly hilly area. Both occupants were killed. Since only three of the seven oil drums had been lashed down, the remaining four slid forward on impact.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the accident was determined to be a loss of power that had occurred shortly after takeoff. The loss of power could be traced to the fracture of one of the compressor guide vanes, which had occurred as a result of material fatigue.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Trans-Guyana-Airways-Flug 700” (revision 239858548, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Trans-Guyana-Airways-Flug 700
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 239858548 · 2023-12-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q15641342
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA14WA100
- Event ID
- 20140122X65411
- Case number
- ERA14WA100
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Trans-Guyana-Airways-Flug 700" (page 11998021, revision 239858548), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA14WA100 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: 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); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record ERA14WA100
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Trans Guyana Airways Flight 700" and NTSB case ERA14WA100, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- The NTSB record dates it 2014-01-19 and the Wikipedia article 2014-01-18; Wikipedia's date is used.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.