ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 327273
| Date: | Wednesday 23 January 1985 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: |  Embraer EMB-110P1 Bandeirante |
| Owner/operator: | AIRES Colombia |
| Registration: | HK-2638 |
| MSN: | 110341 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1981 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-34 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 17 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 16 km from Buga -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Neiva Airport (NVA/SKNV) |
| Cali Airport (CLO/SKCL) |
An Embraer 110P1 Bandeirante passenger plane, HK-2638, was destroyed in an accident near Buga, Colombia. All 15 passengers and two crew members were killed.
AIRES Colombia flight 585 departed Florencia Airport (FLA) on a domestic flight to Cali Airport (CLO), Colombia. An intermediate stop was made at Neiva from were it took off at 09:35. The aircraft crashed into a mountain at 8600 feet after reporting at the Tulua VOR descending to FL105.
This same day, ACES lost a DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft also due to VFR flight into IMC conditions.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in adverse weather.
Sources:
El Tiempo 24-1-1985
Location
Images:
photo (c) Karl Krämer, via Werner Fischdick; Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH); February 1982
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