page_title: Aeromarine West Indies Airways
section_title: Accidents and incidents
hierarchical_section_title: Aeromarine West Indies Airways / Accidents and incidents
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph of the Aeromarine 75 'Santa Maria' in the summer of 1922.
context_page_description: Aeromarine West Indies Airways was a United States airline that operated from 1920 to 1924. It was reorganized as Aeromarine Airways in 1921.
  A new Aeromarine West Indies Airways was incorporated in 2007.
context_section_description: On 13 January 1923, the Aeromarine Airways Aeromarine 75 Columbus suffered engine failure during a flight from Key West to Havana and landed in the Florida Strait.  Buffeted by 10-to-15-foot (3-to-4.5-meter) waves, its hull began to fill with water. Four passengers died, but the ferry ship H. M. Flagler saved the other three passengers and both crew members.
caption: Santa Maria, the most well known and utilised of Aeromarine’s aircraft, flying over the Thousand Islands, summer 1922.[12]
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