IN LOVING MEMORY
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andynap
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A terrible time. Prayers for all. 
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LE JOURNAL DE SAINT-BARTH TRANSPORT NEWS Place of the accident Aerodrome 20 YEARS AGO: AIRPLANE CRASH CARAÏBES & by Pauline Sauthier O 03/24/2021 On March 24, 2001, an airplane operated by the CAT company under an Air Caraibes charter contract crashed shortly before landing at Saint-Barthélemy airport. The disaster claimed twenty victims.
“I have always considered this event to be the loss of my father rather than the catastrophe of the plane crash,” says Florian Choquet. From this day which had a lasting impact on his life, he only keeps somewhat “vague” memories. “I was 5 years old, we were waiting for my father at the airport. I remember the worried looks of people and the implicit understanding that something had gone wrong.
»On March 24, 2001 at 4:47 pm, the Twin Otter DH6-300 of the Cat company registered F-OGES and operating the flight TX 1501 of Air Caraïbes Juliana-Saint-Barth crashed into the house of Mireille and Augustin Questel located on the heights of Public. The tanks are set ablaze, the fire spreads to the house. The seventeen passengers, two crew members and Augustin Questel, owner of the house inside, died in the crash. The victims are mainly French nationals but there is also an American, a Dutchman, two Belgians and a Franco-American.
What happened ? “As the plane approached the short final before the Col de la Tourmente, several people, including the AFIS agent, saw it put into a steep left turn then nose down towards the ground. », Notes the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) in a report published later. "There is no anomaly with regard to the continuity of the flight controls and the mechanical links," the report continues. The BEA evokes several avenues of analysis. That of human error is privileged: “It is the hypothesis of a voluntary passage of the propellers in the beta inverter range that appears the most probable.
Seven years later, the company is doomed. On April 29, 2008, the Basse-Terre Court of Appeal confirmed the conviction of the criminal court at first instance. It concludes in the "manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of prudence or safety provided for by law or regulation" for not having respected the obligation of the training flight for a pilot taking back the controls of an aircraft more 90 days after leaving them. Richard Degryse, head of air operations for Air Caraibes at the time, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence and two years of prohibition from exercising managerial functions of air operations. The company will have to pay a fine of € 250,000 to the families of the victims. The conviction is to be published in two national dailies. “I always said to myself that it didn't change much,” says Sophie Delépine, Florian Choquet's mother today. His companion, Jean-Pascal Choquet died in the accident. “Yes, there was a trial, we were compensated. It doesn't make people. Florian Choquet remembers how, as a child, he was preoccupied with the idea of recovering memories of what his father had on him on the day of the accident. “It took a very long time. I finally recovered a piece of a burnt watch. Today he does not have the feeling of having had a "clear answer" on the circumstances of the accident. "The fact that the plane does not have a black box made the work of the experts very difficult," an association of families of victims pointed out at the time of the trial. It should also be noted that the AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Services) agent, responsible for transmitting information on the flight, aerodrome traffic and runway availability, could not use the recorder of conversations between the lookout and the planes ca .. it had been down for 18 months. "But for Florian Choquet, knowing more" would not have fixed much ". What reassures him is “to hope that the controls of pilots and aircraft have been improved” after the disaster. To avoid new tragedies. A few days before the commemorations, where his mother will like every year to flower the stele erected in Public in tribute to the victims, he “wishes the best to those who lost loved ones at that time. "
ray1:LE JOURNAL DE SAINT-BARTH TRANSPORT NEWS Place of the accident Aerodrome 20 YEARS AGO: AIRPLANE CRASH CARAÏBES & by Pauline Sauthier O 03/24/2021 On March 24, 2001, an airplane operated by the CAT company under an Air Caraibes charter contract crashed shortly before landing at Saint-Barthélemy airport. The disaster claimed twenty victims.
“I have always considered this event to be the loss of my father rather than the catastrophe of the plane crash,” says Florian Choquet. From this day which had a lasting impact on his life, he only keeps somewhat “vague” memories. “I was 5 years old, we were waiting for my father at the airport. I remember the worried looks of people and the implicit understanding that something had gone wrong.
»On March 24, 2001 at 4:47 pm, the Twin Otter DH6-300 of the Cat company registered F-OGES and operating the flight TX 1501 of Air Caraïbes Juliana-Saint-Barth crashed into the house of Mireille and Augustin Questel located on the heights of Public. The tanks are set ablaze, the fire spreads to the house. The seventeen passengers, two crew members and Augustin Questel, owner of the house inside, died in the crash. The victims are mainly French nationals but there is also an American, a Dutchman, two Belgians and a Franco-American.
What happened ? “As the plane approached the short final before the Col de la Tourmente, several people, including the AFIS agent, saw it put into a steep left turn then nose down towards the ground. », Notes the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) in a report published later. "There is no anomaly with regard to the continuity of the flight controls and the mechanical links," the report continues. The BEA evokes several avenues of analysis. That of human error is privileged: “It is the hypothesis of a voluntary passage of the propellers in the beta inverter range that appears the most probable.
Seven years later, the company is doomed. On April 29, 2008, the Basse-Terre Court of Appeal confirmed the conviction of the criminal court at first instance. It concludes in the "manifestly deliberate violation of an obligation of prudence or safety provided for by law or regulation" for not having respected the obligation of the training flight for a pilot taking back the controls of an aircraft more 90 days after leaving them. Richard Degryse, head of air operations for Air Caraibes at the time, was sentenced to a one-year suspended prison sentence and two years of prohibition from exercising managerial functions of air operations. The company will have to pay a fine of € 250,000 to the families of the victims. The conviction is to be published in two national dailies. “I always said to myself that it didn't change much,” says Sophie Delépine, Florian Choquet's mother today. His companion, Jean-Pascal Choquet died in the accident. “Yes, there was a trial, we were compensated. It doesn't make people. Florian Choquet remembers how, as a child, he was preoccupied with the idea of recovering memories of what his father had on him on the day of the accident. “It took a very long time. I finally recovered a piece of a burnt watch. Today he does not have the feeling of having had a "clear answer" on the circumstances of the accident. "The fact that the plane does not have a black box made the work of the experts very difficult," an association of families of victims pointed out at the time of the trial. It should also be noted that the AFIS (Aerodrome Flight Information Services) agent, responsible for transmitting information on the flight, aerodrome traffic and runway availability, could not use the recorder of conversations between the lookout and the planes ca .. it had been down for 18 months. "But for Florian Choquet, knowing more" would not have fixed much ". What reassures him is “to hope that the controls of pilots and aircraft have been improved” after the disaster. To avoid new tragedies. A few days before the commemorations, where his mother will like every year to flower the stele erected in Public in tribute to the victims, he “wishes the best to those who lost loved ones at that time. "
JEK
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For those of you who may not know the tragic story.
https://www.sbhonline.com/forums/showthread.php/100738-Twenty-Years-Ago?highlight=24th
https://www.sbhonline.com/forums/showthread.php/100738-Twenty-Years-Ago?highlight=24th
stbartshopper
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For those of you that haven’t seen it, the Memorial on the island for this tragedy is worth a short visit.
