Date: | Friday 22 January 1943 |
Time: | 15:15 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3A-399 |
Owner/operator: | Pan American Grace Airways (Panagra) |
Registration: | NC33645 |
MSN: | 4124 |
Year of manufacture: | 1941 |
Total airframe hrs: | 3179 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 15 |
Other fatalities: | 0 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | NE of Chaparra -
Peru
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Arequipa-Rodríguez Ballón Airport (AQP/SPQU) |
Destination airport: | Lima-Callao International Airport (LIM/SPIM) |
Investigating agency: | CAB |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:Trip No. 9 departed from Santiago, Chile at 05:30 with Lima, Peru as its destination. The flight arrived at Arequipa, Peru at 13:59 for an intermediate stop. It left Arequipa at 14:09. At 14:25, the captain reported to Arequipa that the flight was "leaving control zone altitude 12,200, climbing on instruments, course 290."
Fifty minutes later, the DC-3 struck a mountain peak at an elevation of about 13,000 feet.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Action of the pilot in continuing the flight on instruments in the overcast, contrary to company flight procedure of which, according to the evidence, the pilot was aware. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS: 1. Absence of adequate flight dispatch control by the company.; 2. Failure of the company to inaugurate and maintain written flight and operating procedures in such a form as to be constantly available for the guidance of pilots and dispatchers."
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | CAB |
Report number: | final report |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
CAB File No. 408-43
Statistics
- 65th worst accident in 1943
- 420th worst accident of this aircraft type
- 17th worst accident of this aircraft type at the time
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