Date:	Monday 24 November 1980
Time:	15:47
Type:	Douglas C-47A-35-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Dirección General de Aduanas
Registration:	HK-1221G
MSN:	9703
Year of manufacture:	1943
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Murri -   Colombia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Turbo-Gonzalo Mejía Airport (TRB/SKTU)
Destination airport:	Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD)

Narrative:
The DC-3, operated by the Colombian Customs, was destroyed when it impacted the side of a mountain (Cerro El Boquerón) at 9500 feet. All aboard were killed.
Weather in the area was poor with heavy rainfall.

PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in deteriorating weather at very low altitude in a mountainous area.

El Tiempo - 27 Nov 1980, p.6A
El Tiempo - 29 November 1980, p.1A+6A
El Tiempo - 2 December 1980, p.2B
El Tiempo - 26 Nov 1980

Other occurrences involving this aircraft

12 September 1944

42-23841

United States Army Air Force - USAAF

Jorhat

w/o

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG); August 1974

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