ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 305879
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| Date: | Friday 18 January 1957 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Vultee BT-13B |
| Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea de Chile |
| Registration: | 187 |
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| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Lago Palena -
 Chile
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| Phase: | |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | BA Chamiza/Puerto Montt |
Made a forced landing into terrain near Lago General Paz (Lago Palena), Los Lagos. Comandante de Escuadrilla (BA Balmaceda) Orlando García Palazuelos and constructor civil Ernesto Sánchez were not injured. Located by air 22 JAN and later rescued by a FACh Catalina. The aged aircraft (del 1943, type phased out 1959) apparently abandoned due to the impassable terrain.
Sources:
La Nación (Santiago) 23 January 1957, p13
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