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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Piper PA-23-250, N5553Y: Aircraft reported missing near St. Croix, Virgin Islands
IDENTIFICATION
Regis#: 5553Y Make/Model: PA23 Description: PA-23-150/160 Apac=e Date: 10/15/2012 Time: 1200
Event Type: Incident Highest Injury: None Mid Air: N Missing: N Damage: Unknown
LOCATION
City: ST CROIX State: Country: US
DESCRIPTION
AIRCRAFT REPORTED MISSING NEAR ST. CROIX, VI
INJURY DATA Total Fatal: 0
Crew: 0 Fat: 0 Ser: 0 Min: 0 Unk:= 1
Pass: 0 Fat: 0 [ ] Ser: [ ] 0 Min: 0 [ ] Unk:=
Grnd: Fat: [ ] 0 Ser: [ ] 0 Min: [ ] 0 Unk:=
OTHER DATA Activity: Unknown | Phase: Unknown | Operation: OTHER |
FAA FSDO: SOUTH FLORIDA, FL (SO19) Entry date: 10/18/2012
http://regis=ry.faa.gov/N5553Y
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_Results.aspx?NNumber=xt=5553Y
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http://jetphotos.net/viewphoto.php?id=5714528
<http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jFJXme Uki74/UHODx6exoMI/AAAAAA=AZpE/fwCTHIMhTOc/s1600/kirby-001.jpg> Captain Kirby Hodge
Philipsburg:--- Relat=ves of Anguillian Pilot Kirby Hodge and the passengers that were on board f=ight 5553Y-AZTEX are upset with the conflicting information they are being f=d regarding the survival and search and rescue mission.
Saturday evening relatives o= Captain Hodge and other Anguillians were rejoicing when they were told tha= all six persons on board the aircraft were found alive.
Hours later their joy turned=into sadness when they learnt that the search and rescue mission was called=off due to the inclement weather conditions and that only one female passen=er that was on board flight 5553Y— AZTEX that left St. Croix en route to St. Thomas early Saturday morning crashed w=s rescued.
The female survivor told res=ue workers that all six of the passengers including her child exited the ai=craft alive but they all got separated due to the bad weather conditions an= high waves.
Information from San Juan To=ers now states that the search and rescue was called off because of incleme=t weather and darkness of the night.
Earlier on Saturday afternoon, SMN News received information from the Towers=at PJIAE which stated that they were informed that all the passengers were f=und in a raft drifting while the pilot swam to a nearby key. SMN News also r=ceived the same information from the Towers in Martinique.
Late Saturday evening SMN News was told that the information they received r=mained the same. However, information from St. Croix Airport states that on=y one female passenger was rescued and up to press time the other five pass=ngers were not located including well known Pilot Kirby Hodge.
The passenger that was rescu=d SMN News learnt was taken to St. Croix while scores of family members of t=e victims and the pilot gathered at a beach in St. Thomas to see if the Coa=t Guard was going to show up with their loved ones.
Kirby Hodge is a well known pilot and businessman from Island Harbour Anguil=a. He owns Rainbow International Airlines which is responsible for air evac=ation within the region.
This latest crash came just one week after an aircraft crashed on the V.C. B=rd International Airport in Antigua where three persons including the pilot=lost their lives.
Story and comments: http://smn-news.com http://smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/10684-anguillian--egistration-plane-crashed-conflicting-information-regarding-pilot-and-passe=gers-being-released-updated.html
Related:
http://theanguillian.com/2012/03/anguillian-airline-offers-improved-air-a-bulance-services/
http://theanguill-an.com/2012/03/anguillian-airline-offers-improved-air-ambulance-services/
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts 0=80. AN Anguillan pilot and five passengers who were earlier today (Oct. 1=) involved in a plane crash and reported missing were found alive.
According to the St. Maarten=News Network's website the plane's captain, Kirby Hodge, an= passengers were found alive by rescue workers in St. Croix.
Sources close to Hodge's family in Anguilla suggest that the f=ve passengers were found drifting in a raft that was prepared for them by H=dge while he swam to a nearby key.
Reports circulated that Captain Hodge, who owns Rainbow International A=rlines, and his passengers may have disappeared after taking off from St. C=oix sometime after 6:00 a.m.
Hodge is a popular Anguillan=pilot and well known entrepreneur, who is responsible for air evacuation wi=hin the region and delivering newspapers to the island of St. Croix from St= Thomas, was returning back to St. Thomas from St. Croix after picking up several passengers.
This morning, Air Towers in S=n Juan Puerto Rico contacted St. Maarten and Martinique to inquire if the f=ight manned by Captain Hodge had landed at any of the two airports.
Shortly after rescue workers were dispatched in search of the aircraft
It was later understood that the wreckage of the aircraft was found b=t none of the passengers were located.
Many family members and friends who prayed for Hodge and his passenge=s' safe return rejoiced at the good news that they were all alive. This is the second plane to have crashed in the reg=on over a seven-day period.
On Monday (Oct. 8), Montserrat was in mourning foll=wing a crash of the national airline in Antigua late Sunday afternoon.
Reports stated that shortly after 4:00 p.m. October 7, a Britis= Norman Islander nine-seat aircraft operated by Fly Montserrat had crashed s=ortly after takeoff from the V.C. Bird International Airport.
There were three passengers on board along with the pilot= Jason Forbes, who was pronounced dead on the scene. A woman, later identif=ed as Annya Duncan, a Jamaican national and teacher at the Montserrat Secon=ary School also died in the aircraft. A 57-year old Guyanese woman was the other victim.
The woman was said to have died shortly after arriving at=the Mount Saint John Medical Centre and the sole survivor is a British nati=nal, who is said to have sustained bruises, lacerations and a broken ankle a=d that none of his injuries were life threatening, according to official reports.
Fly Montserrat also resumed its regular scheduled service on Mo=day among Antigua, Montserrat and Nevis.
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