SANTO DOMINGO. - The director of the Dominican Civil Aviation Institute (IDAC) revealed today that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) investigates Caribair Airlines president Rafael Rosado and “is going to take measures against him.”
Jose Tomas Perez reiterated that the carrier was suspended for nine months for conducting flights that pose a threat to Dominican Republic’s Category One aviation status.
He also rejected Rosado’s allegation that flights from Haiti are in danger after Caribair’s suspension, and said other airlines will have to assume that route. “Other airlines will have to assume the flights to Haiti meanwhile. There’s no danger, when an airline is serving a market and stops serving it another one assumes that market, period.”
The IDAC director said a Caribair airplane crashed in North Carolina on January 1, this year, which was a private plane that he (Rosado) was chartering as if it was a commercial airplane, prompting a visit by four FAA inspectors to the country to investigate.
“The FAA is also going to take measures against him, according to the information we have,” he said, adding that Rosado will be given an opportunity to reorganizes his company, to be reviewed within nine months, “and he also has quite a large case file”
Rosado responds
This morning the Caribair president denounced, through the morning radio program Z-101, said starting today Dominican Republic/Haiti flights could be paralyzed. “As of today all flights are practically stopped because Haiti’s authorities have introduced obstacles for Dominican airplanes and so the Dominican ones are also introducing obstacles here, and I believe that, then, if there are no conversations between both authorities today the flights would be stopped and there won’t be flights here to there, nor there to here.”
Caribair incident chronology:
Press files show Caribair’s incidents: In 2002 airplane number HI648, with two people; August 28, 2005, airplane number HI 533, with four people; February 7, 2008, the airplane HI653, with eight people, ran out of fuel; November 3, 2008, airplane number HHCRB with two people, and January 3, airplane N815 MA, with six people.
Written by: josean, 2 Feb 2009 11:46 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Let the chips fall where they may!
Written by: Cacique, 2 Feb 2009 11:47 AM
From: Dominican Republic
All the pilots i know seem have a lot lot of money...
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Caribair? Why are they using that name?
It can not be the same carrier that I flew over 40 years ago from PR to NYC?
This must be an opportunist trying to cash in on the previous great Caribbean Airline of yesteryear.
On another note, Dominicana de Aviacion, and Aerovias Quisqueyanas were always in trouble because of the plane crashes, and poor administration. I hope that period is far behind us, with all the native well educated professional pilots, business adminitrators, and modern-day investor empresarios. We don't need to return to the airplane equivalents of the "carros de conchos fletao" de la Duarte del ayer, (Anafes voladores).
I'm just a landlubber, but, I know what flies right. Keep the hapharzard heaps off the airways for safety's sakes; No more Austin Morris, Opels, etc. It's a new day. Fly right!
No Cachi-bachi Airlines, plis.
Como decia Jose Jose: Lo pasado, pasado!
Written by: josean, 2 Feb 2009 5:22 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Josean,
I actually flew Transcaribbean, and Carib Air.
If my mind serves me correctly, the tail had a Morro Castle emblem on it!
My mind works sometimes; And I distinctly remember Carib Air. $45 midnight flights NYC-PR?
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Written by: ABR23, 2 Feb 2009 7:45 PM
From: Puerto Rico
You have it right (finally). CaribAir was famous at first for there DC3's and their CONVAIRS with Turbine engine retrofit. remeber The Cortijo Album with the guys boarding the plane.
Josean I also remember coming on vacation on CaribAir and Aerovias which Belonged to the Dominican family BORDAS, who had moved to PR as enemies of Trujillo. Aerovias had fans in the aisles upper side.
Really those lines CARIBAIR and PRINAIR started to loose out when SABRE ticketing which was owned by the airlines geared customers only to the member companies. Later on, 1980's EASTERN Metro and American Eagle kept all the stateside passengers who they brought to PR and who were to change to USVI etc.
Pan Am is now the name used by PAWA Dominicana.
It is true that all these airlines cut corners, but CaribAir Dominicana has been known to make even those who know it ponder. Poor paid, poor trained, pilots, bad and infrequent maintenance.
If u flew them u can fly anything.
From: Spain, Ibiza, Minorca, Mallorca
Yeah I got it right?
Of course, I did; I know what I'm talking about. I ain't perpetrating a fraud, or pontificating;
I have flown on several arilines:
Carib Air,
Trans Caribbean
Dominicana
A. Quisqueyanas (la Cheita voladora)
Pan Am
Eastern
Air Jamaica
American
Aeromar
Apple
Capitol
New York Air
Delta
TWA
Continental
Allegheny
Spirit
Jet Blue
U.S. Air
United
I first flew to New York International Airport on a Boeing 707 in 1963.
And a good memory is a God given talent, and a genetic inheritance.
No vine nadando!
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
I was on the very last flight of Prinair ...San Juan to St Thomas prior to folding and flew many hundreds of times on Charley Blair,s Antilles Airboats....those were the days and Arsenio you flew to Idlewild in 1963 JFK had that name in those years prior to the assassination I know you know that but few others do
From: Jamaica
Why is the FAA investigating Caribair? If it is a Dominican company, then IDAC is responcible !
It is IDAC's job to carry out such actions to maintain DR in Category One.
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
duster doctor please do not allow national pride to get in the way of airline safety and efficiency or planes will start dropping out of the skies on a daily basis
Written by: Sigma, 3 Feb 2009 11:36 AM
From: United States, Dom Rep/Haiti
Dusterdoc,
once you have international airports, FAA has the right to investigate AND close your airlines and airports.
My .02 cents
From: Jamaica
FAA can stop you from flying INTO the USA, they do not have jurisdiction in the DR, they cannot close DR airports/ internal airlines. IDAC has that responcibility. If IDAC is not doing their job, FAA can take away Category One, that will affect DR commercial flights into USA. SOMEBODY at IDAC must be held responcible,it is IDACs job to oversee DR operators. If IDAC is not working.........then put in people who will make it work. Or is that asking too much
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
Yes
Written by: ABR23, 3 Feb 2009 9:06 PM
From: Puerto Rico
Yes right again. I lived in Brolyn and remember as a Kid Idewild. Also remember going to see the planes crash of a Jet and Constellation.
Also a japaneese airliner that landed short and you could see the tail sticking out in the mud from Rockaway Ave.
One of the car dealers near JFK is still called Idelwild Motors.
Antilles was in bussines until Hurricane Hugo, they went bust then.
Also recall Transcaribbean hitting the mountain in St thomas.
Today they are already talking about returning CaribAir to service. If they do not he can say all the companies that are doing the same. (O rompo la vellonera).
From: Cuba, it is a secret the censors are looking for me
ABR you have been around like a donut .....they moved that mountain in St Thomas as you well know
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It can not be the same carrier that I flew over 40 years ago from PR to NYC?
This must be an opportunist trying to cash in on the previous great Caribbean Airline of yesteryear.
On another note, Dominicana de Aviacion, and Aerovias Quisqueyanas were always in trouble because of the plane crashes, and poor administration. I hope that period is far behind us, with all the native well educated professional pilots, business adminitrators, and modern-day investor empresarios. We don't need to return to the airplane equivalents of the "carros de conchos fletao" de la Duarte del ayer, (Anafes voladores).
I'm just a landlubber, but, I know what flies right. Keep the hapharzard heaps off the airways for safety's sakes; No more Austin Morris, Opels, etc. It's a new day. Fly right!
No Cachi-bachi Airlines, plis.
Como decia Jose Jose: Lo pasado, pasado!
FYI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_Caribbean_Airways
I actually flew Transcaribbean, and Carib Air.
If my mind serves me correctly, the tail had a Morro Castle emblem on it!
My mind works sometimes; And I distinctly remember Carib Air. $45 midnight flights NYC-PR?
Lo encontre papa!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caribair_(Puerto_Rico)
Y es facil, loco! "Yo no vine empujando el avion, o' en la falda del piloto"...Como decian antes.
Josean I also remember coming on vacation on CaribAir and Aerovias which Belonged to the Dominican family BORDAS, who had moved to PR as enemies of Trujillo. Aerovias had fans in the aisles upper side.
Really those lines CARIBAIR and PRINAIR started to loose out when SABRE ticketing which was owned by the airlines geared customers only to the member companies. Later on, 1980's EASTERN Metro and American Eagle kept all the stateside passengers who they brought to PR and who were to change to USVI etc.
Pan Am is now the name used by PAWA Dominicana.
It is true that all these airlines cut corners, but CaribAir Dominicana has been known to make even those who know it ponder. Poor paid, poor trained, pilots, bad and infrequent maintenance.
If u flew them u can fly anything.
Of course, I did; I know what I'm talking about. I ain't perpetrating a fraud, or pontificating;
I have flown on several arilines:
Carib Air,
Trans Caribbean
Dominicana
A. Quisqueyanas (la Cheita voladora)
Pan Am
Eastern
Air Jamaica
American
Aeromar
Apple
Capitol
New York Air
Delta
TWA
Continental
Allegheny
Spirit
Jet Blue
U.S. Air
United
I first flew to New York International Airport on a Boeing 707 in 1963.
And a good memory is a God given talent, and a genetic inheritance.
No vine nadando!
It is IDAC's job to carry out such actions to maintain DR in Category One.
once you have international airports, FAA has the right to investigate AND close your airlines and airports.
My .02 cents
Also a japaneese airliner that landed short and you could see the tail sticking out in the mud from Rockaway Ave.
One of the car dealers near JFK is still called Idelwild Motors.
Antilles was in bussines until Hurricane Hugo, they went bust then.
Also recall Transcaribbean hitting the mountain in St thomas.
Today they are already talking about returning CaribAir to service. If they do not he can say all the companies that are doing the same. (O rompo la vellonera).