July 9, 2008 at 12:11 am
Date: 06 JUL 2008
Time: 01:30
Type: McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15F
Operator: USA Jet Airlines
Registration: N199US
C/n / msn: 47153/185
First flight: 1967
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B (HK3)
Crew: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 2
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Location: N of Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International Airport (SLW) (Mexico)
Phase: Approach
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Shreveport Regional Airport, LA (SHV)
Destination airport: Saltillo-Plan de Guadalupe International Airport (SLW)
Flightnumber:
USA Jet Flight 199 departed Hamilton (YHM), Canada on July 5, en route to Shreveport (SHV) where it arrived at 23:19 CDT. It took off again at 23:48 CDT, bound for Saltillo (SLW), Mexico. The DC-9 was on aproach to runway 17 when it crashed in an industrial area just north of the airport. The airplane broke up and burned.