Date: | Sunday 6 December 1970 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas DC-3A |
Owner/operator: | LASA Engenharia e Prospecções |
Registration: | PP-CDH |
MSN: | 11730 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: / Occupants: |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Turrialba Volcano -
Costa Rica
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Unknown |
Departure airport: | Mexico City International Airport (MEX/MMMX) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:Crashed. The aircraft was operating on a flight from Mexico City to Chile.
It must be noted that there is no reference to this accident in Costa Rican newspaper La Nacion around the accident day. There was an accident on December 4 involving a C-47 of the Nicaragua Air Force, also near the Turrialba Volcano.
Sources:
The Douglas DC-1/DC-2/DC-3 - the first seventy years / J.M. Gradidge
E-mail from Mr. E. Estrada 17-10-2006
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
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