Date:	Saturday 28 April 1979
Time:
Type:	IAI Arava 201
Owner/operator:	Aviación Naval Ecuatoriana - ANE
Registration:	202
MSN:	020
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	within eastern -   Ecuador
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Military
Departure airport:
Destination airport:

Narrative:
Crashed while searching for a SAETA Vickers 785D Viscount (HC-AVP) which was reported missing since April 23 on a flight from Quito to Cuenca.
Five Navy personnel and two civilians were on board the Arava. Both civilians died. One of them was Jaime Alexander, son of the pilot of the missing SAETA flight, Edwin Alexander.

Aeroflight World Air Forces
El Siglo de Torreón 30 April 1979, p13

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