Accident description
Last updated: 20 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 02 AUG 1947 |
| Type: | Avro 691 Lancastrian 3 |
| Operator: | British South American Airways - BSAA |
| Registration: | G-AGWH |
| C/n / msn: | 1280 |
| First flight: | |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 6 / Occupants: 6 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 11 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Tupungato Mountain (Argentina)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Buenos Aires (unknown airport), BA, Argentina |
| Santiago-Los Cerrillos Airport (ULC/SCTI), Chile |
Went missing over the Andes mountains while on a flight to Buenos Aires. Climbers found the wreckage January 2000 at over 5,000 meters above sea-level on top of Argentina's Tupungato Mountain, close to the Chilean border.
Events:
Sources:
» The Civil Aircraft Registers of Great Britain
» Star Dust Falling / J.Rayner
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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.
