Originally Posted by
WHBM
A particularly sad moment. Air Malta developed a procedure of chartering in medium-term each summer season from a variety of operators, they had several 727s, from JAT, American Trans Air, etc, in 1990 it was Faucett from Peru who sent over a 727-200 for 6 months. At the end of the season they set off home with their establishment, they had supplied several crews, flight deck and cabin, and engineering, some of whom had taken families. Routing through Keflavik, they were overdue at Gander and last heard of with a Mayday that they were out of fuel over the Atlantic and preparing to ditch. Nothing heard of them again. Not equipped with over-ocean navigation of course.
I've only just learnt about this incident as Wikipedia has a page dedicated to it, very sad indeed.
Faucett Peru Boeing 727-247 OB-1303 ran out of fuel and lost communication and crashed 180 miles southeast of Cape Race, Newfoundland, Canada on the 11 September 1991.
On a side note....Exactly ten years later to the day an event that changed the world occurred.
Here's a photo of the aircraft in question... Faucett Peru Boeing 727-247 OB-1303.
