Date: | Saturday 16 May 1992 |
Time: | 09:50 |
Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
Owner/operator: | Aerotaca Colombia - Aerotransportes Casanare |
Registration: | HK-2760 |
MSN: | 777 |
Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 16 |
Aircraft damage: | Minor, repaired |
Category: | UI |
Location: | rural airstrip near Caño -
Colombia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | El Yopal Airport (EYP/SKYP) |
Destination airport: | Bucaramanga-Palo Negro Airport (BGA/SKBG) |
Narrative:Four suspected National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas hijacked an Aerotaca DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft during a flight from Bogotá (BOG) to Bucaramanga (BGA) via El Yopal (EYP), where the hijackers boarded the aircraft. The airplane took off from El Yopal at 08:40 and was reported hijacked at 09:50.
The plane landed, and six civilian passengers were released; however, three military passengers, identified as members of a Colombian intelligence unit, were tortured and killed. The abandoned aircraft was later recovered on a rural landing strip, intact except for its missing communications equipment. The fate of the three crew members could not be determined.
Sources:
Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 1992 / U.S. Department of Transport, FAA, Office of Civil Aviation Security
El Tiempo 19/04/1993
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
8 April 1999 |
HK-2760 |
Aerotaca Colombia - Aerotransportes Casanare |
5 |
11 km SW of Málaga Airport |
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