Beechcraft 99 crash near Milot
SALSA d'Haïti Beechcraft Model 99 · Bad weather conditions
From Toussaint Louverture, Port-au-Prince (Haiti) to Cap-Haïtien (airport), Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA11WA499
- 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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- Instrument Meteorological Cond
Beechcraft Model 99
- Flight
- SO112
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft Model 99
- 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
- HH-APA
- Operator
- SALSA d'Haïti
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Toussaint Louverture, Port-au-Prince (Haiti)To Cap-Haïtien (airport), Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)
- 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., 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
- Controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The Beechcraft 99 crash near Milot was an aviation accident that occurred on 20 September 2011. A Beechcraft 99A aircraft of the airline SALSA d'Haïti was operating passenger flight SO112 on the route Port-au-Prince—Cap-Haïtien, but because of bad weather conditions it crashed in a flooded sugar cane field near Milot (Republic of Haiti). All 3 people (1 passenger and 2 crew members) on board died.
Chronology of events
The departure of flight 112 was scheduled for 16:00. The aircraft was operating a scheduled domestic flight from Port-au-Prince to Cap-Haïtien. As local media later reported, this was SALSA's last flight of the day between the two cities. Shortly before the crash, flight 112 was seen by the crew of an aircraft of the airline Tortug' Air, which that day was following the same route but returned to the departure airport because of bad weather. They noticed that the Beechcraft, probably because of wind shear, was slowly losing height. It soon emerged that the pilots of flight 112 were at that time busy turning back towards the departure airport. At around 17:00 communication with the flight was lost. It crashed in a flooded sugar cane field near Lori, Haiti; at the moment of the crash heavy rain was falling in the area. Both crew members and the passenger died.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation into the crash of flight SO112 was conducted by the National Civil Aviation Office (OFNAC).
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Russian Wikipedia article “Катастрофа Beechcraft 99 под Милотом” (revision 151299571, 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
NTSB narrative
On September 20, 2011, at 2130 universal coordinated time, a Hawker Beechcraft BE-99A, registered in Haiti as HH-APA, was substantially damaged when it impacted terrain while on approach to the Cap Haitien International Airport (MTCH), Cap Haitien, Haiti. The two crewmembers and one passenger were fatally injured. The airplane was operated by Salsa d'Haiti as flight 112, a scheduled domestic passenger flight which originated from Port-Au-Prince International Airport (MTPP), and was conducted under Haitian flight regulations.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Haiti. Further information may be obtained from:
Office National de l' Aviation Civile (OFNAC) Aéroport International de Port-au-Prince B.P. 1346 Port-au-Prince, Haiti Telephone: (+509) 2250-0220 Fax: (+509) 2250-9898
This report is for informational purposes only and contains information released by or obtained for the Government of Haiti.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Russian Wikipedia article: Катастрофа Beechcraft 99 под Милотом
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 151299571 · 2026-01-22 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q117350459
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA11WA499
- Event ID
- 20110922X03751
- Case number
- ERA11WA499
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- ru Wikipedia article "Катастрофа Beechcraft 99 под Милотом" (page 9933753, revision 151299571), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA11WA499 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record ERA11WA499: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- 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 ERA11WA499
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Beechcraft 99 crash near Milot" and NTSB case ERA11WA499, 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.