Crash: Air Class SW4 near Flores Island on Jun 6th 2012, aircraft missing
Originally Posted by AvHerald
An Air Class Lineas Aereas Swearingen SA227-C Metro on behalf of DHL, registration CX-LAS performing freight flight CXLAS from Montevideo (Uruguay) to Buenos Aires Ezeiza,BA (Argentina) with 2 crew, was climbing through about 4500 feet to FL080 in icing conditions about 2nm south of Flores Island (Uruguay), about 10nm south of Montevideo's Carrasco Airport, about 5 minutes into the flight just before 20:00L (23:00Z) when radar and radio contact with the aircraft was lost. The aircraft did not land at any airport reachable, the fuel would have been exhausted by now.
Uruguay's Air Force have launched a search for the aircraft, weather conditions hamper the search however.
Initially Uruguay's Air Force reported the aircraft involved was an Aeromas Embraer EMB-110 registration CX-MAS. Later reports identify an Air Class Swearingen SA227-C Metro registration CX-LAS or CX-CLA, Air Class operates 4 Metros CX-LAS, CX-CLA, CX-CSS and CX-CLS, all in DHL colours.
Hoping for a better result than the Sukhoi accident.