1990 SAHSA Douglas DC-3 accident
Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) · The 1990 SAHSA Douglas DC-3 accident occurred on 18 March 1990
From La Laguna Airport (GJA) to Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (SAP)
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
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 25
- 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
- 25
- 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
Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3)
- Aircraft type
- Douglas C-47
- 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
- HR-SAZ
- Operator
- Sahsa
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From La Laguna Airport (GJA)To Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (SAP)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Juan Manuel Gálvez International Airport, the airport the Wikipedia article names as the site. Where on or near it is not known.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1990 SAHSA Douglas DC-3 accident occurred on 18 March 1990. A Douglas C-47A-75-DL (DC-3) of the Honduran airline SAHSA was to operate a domestic scheduled flight from Guanaja to San Pedro Sula in Honduras. In the accident the aircraft ran off the runway during landing and rolled into the sea, killing six passengers and one crew member and injuring 25 others.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was operating a flight from Guanaja to San Pedro Sula with a stopover on the Caribbean holiday island of Roatán. During the intermediate landing in Roatán the aircraft was exposed to strong crosswinds, as a result of which it ran off the runway and rolled into the sea. One crew member and six passengers were killed, and 25 other occupants were injured.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the accident was the crew's loss of control over the aircraft due to strong crosswinds on landing.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Douglas DC-3 der SAHSA 1990” (revision 254878201, 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: Flugunfall einer Douglas DC-3 der SAHSA 1990
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 254878201 · 2025-04-05 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131341021
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Douglas DC-3 der SAHSA 1990" (page 13292513, revision 254878201), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- airport the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata code, OurAirports)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- "scheduled flight" in the article's opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.