Date: | Sunday 25 February 1962 |
Time: | 14:35 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Avianca |
Registration: | HK-502 |
MSN: | 19653 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Municipio de Marulanda -
Colombia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | Manizales-La Nubia Airport (MZL/SKMZ) |
Destination airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The C-47 took off from Manizales (elevation 3380 feet) at 14:04 for a cargo flight to Bogotá (elevation 8355 feet). At 14:20 the crew reported at 12500 feet over San Felix. An emergency was declared at 14:35; the plane crashed immediately after this transmission.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was due to the faulty procedure on the part of the pilot who made the en route climb from Manizales to San Felix at a low altitude, so that the aircraft became trapped in a canyon and crashed in the San Felix pass at La Aguadita after stalling during a turn at 9000ft."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume I, Circular 71-AN/63 (15-17)
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