San Juan - Santo Domingo

On April 5, 1990 at 05:45 PM, San Juan - Santo Domingo experienced a crash involving Lockheed C-121 Super Constellation, operated by AMSA - Aerolineas Mundo SA, with the event recorded near Levittown All Puerto Rico.

The flight was categorized as ferry and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 33.3%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The captain of the airplane elected to take off on a three engine ferry flight without authorization. During the three engine climb out with the n°3 propeller feathered, the n°2 engine caught fire and he could not extinguish the fire. He attempted to return and during the descent the n°1 engine failed. He then intentionally ditched the airplane in the ocean, and received fatal injuries. The airplane was not recovered from the ocean and no determination of cause could be ascertained.

Aircraft reference details include registration HI-515CT, MSN 4192, year of manufacture 1956.