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Date: | Wednesday 24 January 2007 |
Time: | night |
Type: | Aérospatiale SA 342L Gazelle |
Owner/operator: | Aviación del Ejército Ecuatoriana |
Registration: | E-360 |
MSN: | 1885 |
Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Other fatalities: | 2 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Manta -
Ecuador
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Quito |
Destination airport: | Guayaquil |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:Mid-air collison with E-343, killed Defense Minister Guadalupe Larriva (50) and her daughter Claudia Avila (17). Helicopters were performing a night flight test "and in a bad maneuver it appears that the blades collided and the helicopters fell to the ground."
Pilot Celso Acosta and Coronel Marco Jurado were among the five killed.
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246618,00.html Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
10-Jan-2009 11:55 |
ASN archive |
Added |
06-Sep-2011 05:47 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Date, Registration, Cn, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
21-Mar-2013 16:12 |
TB |
Updated [Time, Operator, Source, Narrative] |
21-Mar-2013 16:14 |
TB |
Updated [Source] |
12-Nov-2016 21:26 |
TB |
Updated [Operator] |
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