Status:	Final
Date:	07 JUN 1992
Time:	14:34
Type:	CASA C-212 Aviocar 200
Operating for:	American Eagle
Leased from:	Executive Airlines
Registration:	N355CA
C/n / msn:	234
First flight:	1982-02-03 (10 years 4 months)
Total airframe hrs:	14135
Engines:	2 Garrett TPE331-10R-51
Crew:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Passengers:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Total:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage:	Destroyed
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	1,2 km (0.8 mls) SW of Mayaguez-Eugenio M. de Hostos Airport (MAZ) (United States of America)
Phase:	Approach (APR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	San Juan-Isla Grande Airport (SIG/TJIG), Puerto Rico
Destination airport:	Mayaguez-Eugenio M. de Hostos Airport (MAZ/TJMZ), Puerto Rico
Flightnumber:	5470

Narrative:
The aircraft lost control on final approach and crashed in a nose-down attitude.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The failure of the beta blocking device for undetermined reason(s), and the second-pilot's inadvertent activation of the power lever, or levers, aft of the flight idle position and into the beta range, resulting in a loss of airplane control."

Sources:
» ICAO Adrep Summary 1/95
» NTSB
» Scramble 157