Date:	Saturday 8 March 1947
Time:	14:59
Type:	Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:	Vías Aéreas de Colombia - VIARCO
Registration:	C-400
MSN:	4792
Year of manufacture:	1942
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 9 / Occupants: 9
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	ca 25 km NW of Villavicencio -   Colombia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV)
Destination airport:	Bogotá-Techo Airport

Narrative:
The DC-3 passenger plane impacted the side of a mountain, some twelve minutes after takeoff from Villavicencio, Colombia. The wreckage was located on March 12, 1947.

Civil Aircraft Registers of Colombia / Air Britain Historians, 1983
El Tiempo 13-3-1947

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