Yes a sad day indeed.... Had a lot of fun flying the Islander and Trislander not that long ago. Must say that was the most fun I've ever had and despite flying a number of JAR25 types since don't think it will ever match those beautiful heady days of flying the I & Tri for a tightly knit small outfit off a rock. So I can certainly empathize with the folks at Divi Divi....
A number of us did wonder how useful she would be on one engine with 9 pax and a hold full of bags.... and that's in the mid latitudes. I have spoken to a colleague who did survive a ditching in an Islander in the tropics and it wasn't a pretty story!
Actually it wasn't that long ago another Islander ditched around that part of the world.... Scant information available at the very bottom of the Incident Watch page on flightglobal.com
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