Date: | Tuesday 8 December 1964 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Aerolineas Abaroa |
Registration: | CP-639 |
MSN: | 7375 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Milluni -
Bolivia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Tipuani Airport (SLTP) |
Destination airport: | La Paz-El Alto Airport (LPB/SLLP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The Douglas C-47 took off from Tipuani at 09:34 for a 36-minute flight to La Paz. The plane crashed into a mountain at about 14500 feet. Witnesses saw the plane explode in mid-air and fall down near the cemetery of a mining area. A dynamite charge had been planted on board by a heavily insured passenger.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A violent explosion of criminal origin inside and at the rear of the aircraft during flight, which caused the tail unit to be torn off."
Sources:
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No.16 - Volume III, Circular 82-AN/69 (129-135)
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