Date:	Monday 26 November 1962
Time:	08:50
Type:	Curtiss C-46A Commando
Owner/operator:	Lineas Aéreas La Urraca
Registration:	HK-354X
MSN:	30379
Year of manufacture:	1944
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	Kingston -   Jamaica
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Ferry/positioning
Departure airport:	Kingston Airport (KIN/MKJP)
Destination airport:	Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Curtiss C-46 operated on a ferry flight from Fairbanks to Bogotá via Miami and Kingston, carrying four spare engines and spare parts. The plane arrived at Kingston on November 25, 17:01 GMT. Following refueling of the aircraft, fuel was observed venting from the right front tank. This caused a delay in departure. At 08:47 GMT the next day, the C-46 lifted off from runway 29 after a long takeoff run and was cleared to climb ahead to 1500 feet. The plane started to turn left on crossing the coastline. Three minutes after takeoff, while still in a shallow climbing left-hand turn, the aircraft flew onto the southern face of Port Henderson Hills at a height of 700 feet. After scraping along rough ground over the brow of the hill, the aircraft fell down a steep precipipe and caught fire.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft was turned during the climb after takeoff at a height insufficient to clear rising ground. The ability of the pilot to avoid the hill may have been affected by some mechanical or other failure, although the occurrence of such a failure was not established. A contributing factor was that the carriage of one pilot was inadequate for the safe operation of an aircraft of this type."

ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume II, Circular 71-AN/63 (134-136)
El Tiempo 27 November 1962, p1+18

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