At the start of July, a small Cessna 402 plane operated by Bahamian tourist airline Flamingo Air encountered an unexpected problem mid-flight before crashing into the bushes near San Andros Airport (MYAN).
The fatal accident caused the deaths of all nine passengers and the pilot aboard while the airline remains grounded with a suspended air operator’s license (AOC) pending an investigation by Bahamian authorities and the Civil Aviation Authority.
The airline has not been running flights and laid off 35 crew and administrative employees as an investigation into the cause of the accident takes place.
Authorities suspend Aeordiana license after fatal crash
In a different part of the world, a similar accident with a tourist plane carrying 13 people took place when a Cessna Caravan C-208 crashed four miles from the Peruvian city of Nazca on Aug. 1.
The accident claimed the lives of all 11 passengers and two pilots aboard and occurred just seven miles from the Nazca Lines archeological site that tourists from different parts of the world were traveling to see. Since the ancient designs that were etched into a giant stretch of desert floor of southern Peru more than 2,000 years ago are only visible by air, the short air tours are a popular activity for both tourists and archeologists.
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According to the latest reports on the accident, Peru’s General Directorate for Civil Aviation (DGAC) has suspended Aerodiana’s operating license pending an investigation into the Aug. 1 crash.
Without an active AOC, Aerodiana is unable to run or sell commercial flights to passengers. Launched out of Peru’s Miraflores in 2008, Aerodiana is specifically a tourist airline selling overflight tours of the ancient Nazca Lines on a single-engine turboprop Cessna 208B Grand Caravan aircraft.
In an incident in 2010, the same Grand Caravan plane taking tourists on a 45-minute tour of the ancient geoglyphs was hijacked by members of a drug cartel who boarded as passengers using fake identity documents. The pilot and co-pilot were eventually released after being held hostage while the plane was declared missing and never located again.
The Nazca Lines are a collection of ancient geoglyphs that are only visible by air.
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“The company will evaluate its flight schedule in accordance with directives: Aerodiana
In a statement put out immediately after the accident, Aerodiana expressed “deepest regret over the tragic accident.”
“We inform the public that the company will evaluate its flight schedule in accordance with directives issued by the relevant authorities,” Aerodiana said further.
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- AVG Travels: The Melbourne-based travel agency selling cheap vacation packages to travelers in Australia and New Zealand sent more than 200 travelers an email saying that the trips were canceled before entering bankruptcy in May 2026.
- GoPlay Sports: In April 2026, the men’s basketball team of the University of Dallas was left without a planned trip to compete in the United Kingdom after Boston-based GoPlay Sports Tours LLC accepted two payments of $30,000 and then went unreachable.
- Havantur: Havantur was forced to shut down its main European office in Franceat the start of 2026 after tourist numbers to the Caribbean country plummeted due to U.S. military actions in Venezuela and threats against the country.
- Vegas Vacations and North America Destinations: Two travel agencies in the Canadian province of British Columbia, Vegas Vacations and North America Destinations, were shut down by regulators within a few days of each other in January 2026 after multiple travelers complained of buying trips with invalid plane tickets and hotel bookings.