Accident description
Last updated: 25 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 08 MAR 1947 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47-DL |
| Operator: | Vías Aéreas de Colombia - VIARCO |
| Registration: | C-400 |
| C/n / msn: | 4792 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Bogotá (Colombia) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV), Colombia |
| Bogotá-Techo Airport, Colombia |
Missing over mountainous terrain.
Events:
Sources:
» Civil Aircraft Registers of Colombia / Air Britain Historians, 1983
» WAAS
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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.
