ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 59933
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| Date: | Monday 31 March 1975 |
| Time: | 10:45 |
| Type: |  Gloster Meteor FR9 |
| Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana |
| Registration: | FF-116 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Other fatalities: | 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Quito -
 Ecuador
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Taura AFB (SETA) |
| Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport (UIO/SEQU), Ecuador | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The Gloster Meteor was on a flight from Taura AFB to Quito Mariscal Sucre Airport, piloted by Brig. Gen. Luis Morejón Almeida, who was the Commander in Chief of Ecuador Air Force at the time as well. Almeida was taking advantage of the Easter holiday to do operative inspections at the air force bases located on the Ecuadorian Coast. The day before, he traveled from Salinas to Taura without any inconvenience. Approximately at 10:45 LT, Almeida arrived in Quito and flew north to the town of Pomasqui.
From there, he returned over the city (probably due to technical problems), next to the slopes of the Pichincha Volcano, so he could later approach from south to north. When the Meteor was on short final, just 656 ft from runway 35 (200 m), one of the wings collided with a lightpole and powerlines at the intersection of 10 de Agosto and El Inca Avenues. This caused the plane to violently spin and crash into the two-floor house of Mr. Marcelo Viteri, a National Development Bank official.
The cockpit wreckage entered violently into the building inside a bedroom, starting a big fire. Other parts of the fuselage were also embedded in the walls of the house. Also, other parts of the wreckage were lauched into the street and Mary's School, a kinder garden nearby, luckily without any casualties. But the crash left at least eight people injured, of whom two had to undergo surgery for their injuries.
Several members of the nearby Mariscal Sucre AFB arrived at the crash site along with firefighters and police officials. A body of a 17-year-old girl was recovered from inside Mr. Viteri's house. At 11:25 LT, Maj. Gen. Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, President of Ecuador at the time, visited the crash site.
Sources:
El Informador 1 April 1975, p3A
O Estado de S.Paulo 1 April 1975, p20
El Comercio 1 April 1975, p1 & p5
Location
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 10-May-2009 21:00 | zerocinquanta | Added |
| 06-Mar-2013 10:19 | Heinz Neidl | Updated [Time] |
| 26-Jan-2015 12:30 | TB | Updated [Operator, Narrative] |
| 21-Sep-2015 20:38 | TB | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
| 05-Jun-2018 17:14 | TB | Updated [Date, Source, Narrative] |
| 17-Sep-2021 18:54 | TB | Updated [Other fatalities, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
| 29-Oct-2021 19:29 | SandroRotaEAP | Updated [Destination airport, Narrative, Category] |
| 07-Jan-2024 08:17 | Diogo da Conceição | Updated [Time, Registration, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
| 13-Jan-2024 18:45 | Anon. | Updated [Narrative] |
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