| Date: | Saturday 8 April 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Texaco |
| Registration: | HK-489E |
| MSN: | 26778 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 29 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Puerto Calderón -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | |
Damaged beyond repair following a runway excursion accident on landing at Puerto Calderón.
Colombian newspaper El Tiempo reported that a DC-3 '1548' was involved in the accident. HK-1548 was a Piper light aircraft and there is no DC-3 known registered as N1548.
Sources:
El Tiempo 10 April 1961, p1+19
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