1990 Aerochago Airlines Convair CV-240 accident
Convair CV-240-23 · The 1990 Aerochago Airlines Convair CV-240 accident occurred on 16 August 1990
From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) to Las Américas International Airport (SDQ)
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
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
Convair CV-240-23
- Aircraft type
- Convair CV-240
- 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
- HI-376CT
- Operator
- Aerochago
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU)To Las Américas International Airport (SDQ)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft structures
- Aircraft › Aircraft handling/service
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1990 Aerochago Airlines Convair CV-240 accident occurred on 16 August 1990. On that day, an Aerochago Convair CV-240-23, operating a cargo flight from San Juan in Puerto Rico to Santo Domingo, was observed breaking apart in the air and crashing into the Caribbean Sea. The wreckage and the two crew members of the aircraft were never found.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was in cruise flight when a suspected in-flight structural failure suddenly occurred. The pilot of an aircraft nearby received a distress call and observed the Convair going out of control and plunging towards the sea, while parts came off the aircraft in the area of the tail. The Convair crashed into the sea in the area of the Mona Passage, located between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Despite an intensive search, neither the wreckage of the aircraft nor the pilots were ever found.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigators concluded that, during the conversion of the aircraft from a passenger to a cargo aircraft, work had been carried out on the aircraft that did not conform to standard procedures. Accordingly, the aircraft structure had been weakened in the area of the cargo door as a result of the conversion, and a structural failure had occurred in this area, resulting in a sudden decompression of the aircraft.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Convair CV-240 der Aerochago Airlines 1990” (revision 258637636, 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 Convair CV-240 der Aerochago Airlines 1990
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 258637636 · 2025-08-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q135235047
- 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 Convair CV-240 der Aerochago Airlines 1990" (page 13459448, revision 258637636), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An Aerochago Airlines Convair on an international cargo flight: an air carrier flight. The article: "an Aerochago Convair CV-240-23, operating a cargo flight from San Juan in Puerto Rico to Santo Domingo"
- 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.