Plane crash site
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 4.43 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,657 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 1,634 ft
- Max elevation
- 1,503 ft
- TrailRank
- 29
- Min elevation
- 111 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 2 hours 11 minutes
- Time
- 2 hours 46 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1277
- Uploaded
- February 14, 2021
- Recorded
- February 2021
near Mount Pleasant, Diego Martin (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)
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Itinerary description
The story behind a small plane wreck perched on the side of a mountain in Chaguaramas is According to the Aviation Safety Network, the privately owned aircraft, a Piper PA-23 Aztec, crashed in 1975 after leaving St Croix's Alexander Hamilton Airport with two occupants, en route to Piarco International Airport.
The report says while approaching Trinidad the weather deteriorated and the pilot was unable to contact the Piarco Control Tower to change his flight plan to instrument flight rules. He reduced his height to gain visibility, but shortly afterwards a steep forested mountain appeared directly ahead which he was unable to avoid.
Both pilot and passenger escaped with minor injuries, the report said.
The report says while approaching Trinidad the weather deteriorated and the pilot was unable to contact the Piarco Control Tower to change his flight plan to instrument flight rules. He reduced his height to gain visibility, but shortly afterwards a steep forested mountain appeared directly ahead which he was unable to avoid.
Both pilot and passenger escaped with minor injuries, the report said.
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