Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 JAN 1985 |
| Time: | 10:35 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | ACES - Aerolineas Centrales de Colombia |
| Registration: | HK-1910 |
| C/n / msn: | 497 |
| First flight: | 1976 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 23 / Occupants: 23 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Cerro el Plateado (Colombia) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (EOH/SKMD), Colombia |
| Quibdó-El Caraño Airport (UIB/SKUI), Colombia |
The ACES Twin Otter crashed into a mountain at 11500 feet altitude in fog and intermittent rain.
This same day, AIRES lost an Embraer 110 aircraft also due to VFR flight into IMC conditions.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Continued VFR flight in adverse weather. Events:
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport to Quibdó-El Caraño Airport as the crow flies is 130 km (81 miles).
Distance from Medellín-Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport to Quibdó-El Caraño Airport as the crow flies is 130 km (81 miles).
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.
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