ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 321798
Date: | Thursday 24 January 2008 |
Time: | 14:55 |
Type: | Douglas DC-3C |
Owner/operator: | VIARCO |
Registration: | HK-2006 |
MSN: | 43086 |
Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
Total airframe hrs: | 22747 hours |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 |
Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Teresita Airport -
Colombia
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
Departure airport: | San Jose del Guaviare-Jorge E. González T. Airport (SJE/SKSJ) |
Destination airport: | Teresita Airport |
Investigating agency: | Aerocivil |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The DC-3 was substantially damaged during a landing accident at the Teresita Airport.
Teresita has a single runway (07/25), 630 m in length. On final approach the left hand landing gear struck a mound of sand. The landing gear collapsed on touchdown and the no. 1 engine caught fire.
CAUSE (translation from Spanish):
Using a flying technique by carrying out an inappropriatly low approach to land, causing the impact of the left hand landing gear on a mound of sand, which could have been avoided if [the pilots had] complied with the established technique of crossing the threshold of the runway at a height of 50 feet with the reference speed.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | Aerocivil |
Report number: | COL-08-02-GIA |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Aerocivil
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
26 August 2020 |
HK-2006 |
Aliansa |
0 |
Jorge Enrique González Torres Airport (SJE/SKSJ),San Jose del Guaviare |
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min |
28 February 2021 |
HK-2006 |
ALIANSA Colombia |
0 |
Monfort Airport (MFB) |
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sub |
Undershoot |
Location
Images:
photo (c) Peter Gralla; Villavicencio Airport (VVC/SKVV); March 2006
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