Date: | Monday 24 November 1980 |
Time: | 15:47 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-35-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Dirección General de Aduanas |
Registration: | HK-1221G |
MSN: | 9703 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 15 / Occupants: 15 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Murri -
Colombia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | Turbo-Gonzalo Mejía Airport (TRB/SKTU) |
Destination airport: | Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD) |
Narrative:The DC-3, operated by the Colombian Customs, was destroyed when it impacted the side of a mountain (Cerro El Boquerón) at 9500 feet. All aboard were killed.
Weather in the area was poor with heavy rainfall.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in deteriorating weather at very low altitude in a mountainous area.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 27 Nov 1980, p.6A
El Tiempo - 29 November 1980, p.1A+6A El Tiempo - 2 December 1980, p.2B
El Tiempo - 26 Nov 1980
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft Statistics
- 23rd worst accident in 1980
- 395th worst accident of this aircraft type
- 388th worst accident of this aircraft type at the time
Location
Images:
![](/photos/wiki/1980/19801124_DC3_HK-1221G_14189.jpg)
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG); August 1974
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