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Date: | Tuesday 13 November 1962 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing B-17G |
Owner/operator: | Air Carrier Leasing Corp |
Registration: | N131P |
MSN: | 32080 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | near Santa Marta, Magdalena -
Colombia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | San Juan, PR |
Destination airport: | Panama City, Panama |
Narrative:(1) Wreckage of a Boeing B-17G with three bodies discovered on a mountain side of the Sierra Nevada, at Santa Marta, Caribbean Sea, 18 MARCH 1963. Accident occured arround three month before.
(2) on a "tourist flight", possible illegal. Two occupants (William F. Patterson, Jr, Air Carrier Leasing Corporation, Miami Florida)
Sources:
(1) La Nación (Santiago) 25 March 1963, p8
(2) El Tiempo 25 March 1963, p1+23
https://www.goodall.com.au/warbirds-directory-v6/boeing.pdf (ex 43-83439)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/162471260/?fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjE2MjQ3MTI2MCwiaWF0IjoxNzE4MDE5MTU0LCJleHAiOjE3MTgxMDU1NTR9.bdLuVFgBriHvmmypSaUmZAsqSgpJ79gHxUFNI4WRCLA Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
30-May-2023 06:22 |
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30-May-2023 06:24 |
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10-Jun-2024 12:22 |
Cobar |
Updated [Date, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source] |