ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 332246
Date: | Saturday 24 December 1966 |
Time: | 10:00 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Avianca |
Registration: | HK-161 |
MSN: | 19630 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 29 / Occupants: 29 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Cerro Las Animas -
Colombia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
Destination airport: | Pasto-Antonio Nariño Airport (PSO/SKPS) |
Narrative:Avianca Flight 729 departed Bogotá-Eldorado Airport at 08:12 hours local time on a domestic flight to Pasto. Last radio contact was at 09:20 when it reported to a controller at Cali that the flight expected to arrive at Pasto at 10:17 hours.
The wreckage was found on January 4, 1967 on a mountain slope, 60 km northeast of Pasto.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 26 Dec 1966 El Tiempo - 5 Jan 1967 Location
Images:
photo (c) Manuel Caicedo; Cascubel River; February 1967
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