Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 22 JAN 1947 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-80-DL |
| Operator: | TACA de Colombia |
| Registration: | C-204 |
| C/n / msn: | 19725 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | off Santay Island (Ecuador) |
| Phase: | Unknown (UNK) |
| Nature: | Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The DC-3 had to be ditched off Santay Island when the no. 1 engine caught fire.
Events:
Sources:
» Civil Aircraft Registers of Colombia / Air Britain Historians, 1983
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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.
