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| Date: | Sunday 25 January 1953 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: |  Vultee BT-13B Valiant |
| Owner/operator: | Fuerza Aérea Ecuatoriana |
| Registration: | 203 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Ballenita, Santa Elena -
 Ecuador
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Quito - Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO/SEQU) |
| Salinas - General Ulpiano Páez Airport (SNC/SESA) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
The plane departed from Quito with Ten. D. Claudio Andrade and Ten. Tinajero on board at 15:30 LT. The crew was transporting about S/. 40.000 sucres (local currency) in cash to pay for the salaries of the troops and officials based at Salinas.
Ing. Emilio Cero was an eyewitness to the crash. He was at Ballenita Beach when he saw the plane flying normally at 600 m when it suddenly lost stability and fell vertically into the sea about a kilometer from the coast, and both crew members died. The following day, the rescue task of refloating the plane from an 18-yard depth in the sea was performed with the help of Anglo-Ecuadorian Oilfields' divers to retieve the corpses.
Sources:
La Nación (Santiago) 26 January 1953, p17
El Comercio (Quito) 26 January 1953, p2
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Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Jan-2015 20:34 | TB | Added |
| 15-May-2024 07:30 | Diogo da Conceição | Updated [Time, Aircraft type, Registration, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
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