ASN Aircraft accident Douglas DC-3A-191 HK-1216 Chigorodó

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Status:
Date:	Thursday 17 January 1974
Time:	13:15
Type:	Douglas DC-3A-191
Operator:	Cessnyca
Registration:	HK-1216
MSN:	1905
First flight:	1937
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830
Crew:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Total:	Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12
Aircraft damage:	Damaged beyond repair
Location:	near Chigorodó ( Colombia)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	Chigorodó Airport (IGO/SKIG), Colombia
Destination airport:	Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD), Colombia

Narrative:
The DC-3 left Chigorodó at 12:54 and climbed to the cruising altitude of FL115. Eyewitnesses later saw the aircraft lose control and crash inverted.
The airplane operated on a flight from Turbo to Medellín with an en route stop at Chigorodó.

Sources:

» El Tiempo - 18 Jan 1974

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Distance from Chigorodó Airport to Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport as the crow flies is 215 km (134 miles).

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.

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