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Date: | Friday 24 February 1984 |
Time: | c. 12:45 LT |
Type: | Cessna 404 Titan |
Owner/operator: | Taxi Aéreo del Guaviare (TAGUA) |
Registration: | HK-2685 |
MSN: | 404-0685 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Gachalá (Cundinamarca) -
Colombia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Bogotá (SKBO) (11:58) |
Destination airport: | Villavicencio (SKVV) |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Engine No.1 failure reported by Captain Alvaro Sánchez under IMC while enroute to Villavicencio. Then ATC lost the radio contact with the flight crew.
The aircraft was found completely destroyed 28 February after crashing into high elevation terrain.
The airplane wasn't properly mantained, and this deficient maintenance was not properly registered.
The flight was authorized for a positioning flight. Because of this, it was not cleared to transport passengers.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes/Terry Denham
El Tiempo 24 February 1984, p1+8A/29 February 1984, p1+7A
ICAO Circular 202-AN/123 Aircraft Accident Digest No. 31
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
27-Sep-2008 01:00 |
ASN archive |
Added |
11-Dec-2008 23:37 |
Rafael Sanchez |
Updated |
02-Jan-2011 11:37 |
TB |
Updated [Cn, Other fatalities, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
19-Sep-2014 20:55 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Damage, Narrative] |
14-Mar-2017 18:17 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Location, Nature, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
17-Mar-2017 10:32 |
TB |
Updated [Operator] |
03-May-2021 06:12 |
Davalemartpe |
Updated [Source, Narrative] |