ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 342395
| Date: | Monday 24 June 1935 |
| Time: | 14:51 |
| Type: |  Ford 5-AT-B Tri-Motor |
| Owner/operator: | Servicio Aéreo Colombiano - SACO |
| Registration: | F-31 |
| MSN: | 5-AT-006 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1928 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1340 Wasp |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 7 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH) -
 Colombia
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| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD) |
| Bogotá-Techo Airport |
Two Ford 5-AT Tri-Motor passenger planes were destroyed in a collision at Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH), Colombia. Seventeen occupants were killed.
Tri-Motor F-31, operated by SACO, swung off the runway during takeoff run and struck a SCADTA Ford Tri-Motor, registered C-31 that was taxiing towards the runway. Both aircraft caught fire. All seven on board the SCADTA plane were killed. Ten of 13 occupants of the SACO plane were killed.
Among those killed on the SACO plane were: Capt Ernesto Samper Mendoza (pilot), Carlos Gardel (47, singer, actor), and Alfredo Le Pera (35, lyricist).
Sources:
Aviacol.net > Servicio Aéreo Colombiano - SACO
El Tiempo - 25 June 1935
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