ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329890
| Date: | Saturday 8 June 1974 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Vickers 785D Viscount |
| Owner/operator: | Aerolíneas TAO |
| Registration: | HK-1058 |
| MSN: | 380 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1958 |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 510 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 44 / Occupants: 44 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 16 km W of Cúcuta-Camilo Daza Airport (CUC) -
 Colombia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bucaramanga-Gomez Niño Airport |
| Cúcuta-Camilo Daza Airport (CUC/SKCC) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
A Vickers 785D Viscount passenger plane, registered HK-1058, was destroyed in an accident at Cerro El Retiro, near Cúcuta, Colombia. All 44 on board were killed. The pilot lost control of the plane when the left tailplane and elevator separated during a VMC descent through 7000 feet.
The failure had been caused by a fatigue fracture in the upper part of the tailplane. This fracture had started at the outer hole of the steel fitting at the spar flange where it joins the fuselage.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Aircraft structure - tail unit, involving the failure in flight of the tailplane spar, so that the left tailplane and elevator became detached and control of the aircraft was lost.
Sources:
ICAO Circular 132-AN/93 (134-138)
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 18 July 1972 | HK-1058 | Aerolíneas TAO | 1 | 145 km SE of San Andrés | |
non |
| 25 August 1972 | HK-1058 | Aerolíneas TAO | 0 | Camagüey Airport (CMW) |  |
non |
Location
Images:
photo (c) Jaime Escobar Corradine; Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO); 08 June 1974
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