2021 Punta Caucedo Gulfstream G-IVSP Crash
On 15 December 2021, a Gulfstream IV, Gulfstream G-IVSP, crashed at Las Américas International Airport, Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, killing all nine people on board, including Puerto Rican music producer Flow La Movie. Accident On December 15, 2021, a Gulfstream IV registered as HI1050, departed Santo Domingo's La Isabella International Airport, en route to Orlando, Florida, before diverting to Las Americas International airport where the aircraft crashed upon an attempted landing. Nine casualties were reported and no survivors. Investigation According to preliminary investigation results shared by Dominican Comisión Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA) on January 18, 2022, the aircraft arrived at La Isabela International Airport, Las Américas International Airport, Punta Caucedo, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, at 12:35 local time following a flight from San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico on the same day of the accident. The ...
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Las Américas International Airport
Las Américas International Airport ( es, Aeropuerto Internacional Las Américas, or AILA) is an international airport located in Punta Caucedo, near Santo Domingo and Boca Chica in the Dominican Republic. The airport is run by Aeropuertos Dominicanos Siglo XXI (AERODOM), a private corporation based in the Dominican Republic, under a 25-year concession to Build–operate–transfer, build, operate, and transfer (BOT) six of the country's airports. Las Américas usually receives a wide variety of long-, mid-, and short-haul aircraft. Santo Domingo's other airport, La Isabela International Airport, La Isabela, is much smaller and used by light aircraft only. The airport is the second-busiest in the country, after Punta Cana International Airport, and one of the largest in the Caribbean, handling 3.5 million passengers in 2015. It is also the busiest cargo hub in the Caribbean and Central America, with 355,000,000 lbs of cargo transported in 2019. History Las Américas Airport op ...
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