Tuesday night's
incident involving an American Airlines aircraft is not the most serious mishap
to have occurred in
There were multiple
fatalities in two earlier crashes of commercial airlines - one in
The worst plane crash on record in
Thirty-seven persons died in that tragedy which occurred at
approximately 2.35 in the morning.
Seven years earlier, in April 1953, thirteen persons died when a
Caribbean International Airways plane crashed shortly after take-off from what
was then known as the
There is an eerie similarity between Tuesday night's incident and the 1960
In the incident 49 years ago it was raining when the Avianca plane came
in for landing.
The Gleaner newspaper reported that it hit the runway with a bump, burst
into flame and went skidding towards the nearby swamp.
Unlike Tuesday night's incident in which there was no fire and no death,
however, the 1962 tragedy resulted in most of the passengers perishing.
The plane wreckage was described
as similar to a funeral pyre with the passengers dying still strapped in their
seats.
Only nine persons - five crew members and four passengers - survived that crash.
In 1953 a Caribbean
International Airways plane, on its first
scheduled flight to
Ten passengers and three crew members died.
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