Status: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Datum: | Dienstag 22 Dezember 1998 |
Zeit: | 00:14 |
Flugzeugtyp: |  Antonow An-32B |
Fluggesellschaft: | SELVA Colombia |
Kennzeichen: | HK-3930X |
Werknummer: | 3309 |
Baujahr: | 1993 |
Betriebsstunden: | 3106 |
Triebwerk: | 2 Ivchenko AI-20D |
Besatzung: | Todesopfer: 3 / Insassen: 3 |
Fluggäste: | Todesopfer: 2 / Insassen: 2 |
Gesamt: | Todesopfer: 5 / Insassen: 5 |
Sachschaden: | Zerstört |
Konsequenzen: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
Unfallort: | 1,2 km (0.8 Meilen) S of Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport (MDE) ( Kolumbien)
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Flugphase: | Annäherung (APR) |
Betriebsart: | Frachtflug |
Flug von: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO), Kolumbien |
Flug nach: | Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport (MDE/SKRG), Kolumbien |
Unfallbericht:The Antonov had taken off from Bogotá to fly a cargo of newspapers to Rionegro. The plane crashed while approaching runway 36 in fog, about 1 km from the airport boundary. The weather was below minima.
Coincidentally, two years and one day earlier (21 December 1996) another Selva An-32 crashed on approach to Rionegro.
Probable Cause:
PROBABLE CAUSE:
Operational decisions by the crew to make a landing at an airport that was under minimum weather conditions and not to perform the aborted approach procedure.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | Aerocivil  |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Accident number: | final report | Download report: | Final report
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Informationsquelle:
» El Heraldo
» El Pais
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Fotos

accident date:
22-12-1998type: Antonov An-32
registration: HK-3930X
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does
not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Bogotá-Eldorado Airport to Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport as the crow flies is 214 km (134 miles).
Accident location: Approximate; accuracy within a few kilometers.
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.