Date: | Monday 29 May 1967 |
Time: | 17:35 |
Type: | Douglas C-54A-15-DC (DC-4) |
Owner/operator: | Aerocondor - Aerovías Cóndor de Colombia |
Registration: | HK-757 |
MSN: | 10404 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 22 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | UI |
Location: | over San Marcos -
Colombia
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Barranquilla-Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ/SKBQ) |
Destination airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
Narrative:Douglas DC-4 passenger plane, HK-757, sustained substantial damage following a bomb explosion en route between Barranquilla-Ernesto Cortissoz Airport (BAQ) and Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG).
The airplane had departed Barranquila at 16:40. Some 55 minutes into the flight, while en route at 6000 feet, an explosion tore a 3-foot hole in the fuselage. The flight continued and a safe landing was carried out at Bogota. A time bomb had been place on board the airplane.
Sources:
El Tiempo - 30 May 1967, p1+3
Aircraft hijackings and other criminal acts against civil aviation : statistics and narrative reports / FAA
El Tiempo - 12 Mar 1969 Location
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