Date: | Monday 27 November 1989 |
Time: | 07:16 |
Type: | Boeing 727-21 |
Owner/operator: | Avianca |
Registration: | HK-1803 |
MSN: | 19035/272 |
Year of manufacture: | 1966 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 107 / Occupants: 107 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Unlawful Interference |
Location: | 16 km SW of Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG) -
Colombia
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
Destination airport: | Cali-Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport (CLO/SKCL) |
Narrative:Avianca Flight 203 departed Bogotá at 07:11 for a flight to Cali, Colombia. While climbing through FL130, a improvised explosive device detonated in area under seat number 14F. The empty center fuel tank was then compromised and an ignition of fuel vapours inside the tank then set off a further break up of the aircraft.
In 1994, an assassin of the Medellin drug cartel, Dandeny Munoz-Mosquera, was convicted in connection with the crash. He allegedly had arranged to place the bomb aboard the aircraft because he believed that two informers who were cooperating with Colombian authorities were on board.
Sources:
USDOJ/OIG Special Report Drug Trafficker Convicted Of Blowing Up Jetliner (NY Times, 20 Dec. 1994) Statistics
- 7th worst accident in 1989
- 7th worst accident of this aircraft type
- 6th worst accident of this aircraft type at the time
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photo (c) Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS); 24 May 1975
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