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DJ Fresh and Da Pond Band Members Among 10 Killed as Government Suspends Flamingo Air Operations

Authorities say DJ Fresh and members of Da Pond Band were among the 10 people killed and that the pilot who first reported a survivor later died of injuries, prompting renewed scrutiny of the carrier's safety practices.The Civil Aviation Authority suspended Flamingo Air's air operator certificate and the government grounded the carrier while investigators from the Aircraft Accident Authority and the Civil Aviation Authority collect wreckage, engine data and witness statements.The Cessna 402 had departed Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau for San Andros before it crashed into dense brush and burst into flames; earlier the same day a separate Flamingo Air flight experienced engine trouble, returned to Nassau and caught fire after passengers disembarked.
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