ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 309219
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| Date: | Friday 20 April 1951 |
| Time: | evening |
| Type: |  Beechcraft AT-11 |
| Owner/operator: | TAM Peru |
| Registration: | 493 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Junín Region -
 Peru
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Satipo (15:00) |
| San Ramón |
"Military transport plane ("avión de Transportes Aéreos Militares del Perú")"..."Beechcraft N°493" disappeared over Peruvian jungle area of the Campas tribes between Junín and Loreto Departments while flying in a storm. Coronel, Comandante, Major and three Tenientes "en misión de servicio" (not a training flight). Three crew and three passengers. Mission to investigate a previous accident. Coronel Blume, Cmte Boca, Mayor Winder, Ten Barrera, Ten Calderón and S.Of. Vásquez. (1) wreckage of an aircraft with seven bodies inside discovered by natives in a jungle area of Alto Tintíayuyato, tributary of Alto Urupamba JUL 1955.
Note: registration identified from copy text sometimes as "498" and "493", but 498 did not exist
Sources:
La Nación (Santiago) 25 April 1951, p10/26 April 1951, p16/27 April 1951, p9/7 May 1951, p21
Scramble
El Deber (Arequipa) with same dates/23 August 1951, p6/(1) 25 July 1955, p1
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 23-Aug-2023 14:38 | TB | Updated |
| 07-Oct-2023 13:30 | TB | Updated |
| 08-Nov-2023 08:51 | TB | Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
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