Date: | Friday 15 March 1963 |
Time: | 13:55 |
Type: | Douglas DC-6B |
Owner/operator: | Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano - LAB |
Registration: | CP-707 |
MSN: | 43547/204 |
Year of manufacture: | 1951 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 39 / Occupants: 39 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near Tacora Volcano -
Peru
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Arica-Chacalluta Airport (ARI/SCAR) |
Destination airport: | La Paz-El Alto Airport (LPB/SLLP) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The flight departed Arica at 13:27 for an 8-hour VFR flight at cruising flight level 170. The DC-6 struck the Chachacomani Peak.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A flight under visual flight rules was attempted below the minimum altitude indicated in the flight plan in weather conditions that were marginal for this type of operation and were associated with the severe turbulence which usually exists in that region (western area)."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume I, Circular 78-AN/66 (80-85)
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