American Eagle Flight 5452 was a commuter flight between Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico and Eugenio María de Hostos Airport in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico. The flight was operated by Executive Airlines, doing business as American Eagle and was operated by a CASA C-212 aircraft. Visual meteorological conditions were present as the plane made its final approach to runway 9 at Mayagüez on May 8, 1987. The plane crashed while landing, 600 feet short of the runway. The crash destroyed the aircraft, killed both pilots, but left the four passengers with only minor injuries.^[2]

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