Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 06 JUN 1992 |
| Time: | ca 21:00 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-204 |
| Operator: | COPA Panama - Compañía Panameña de Aviación |
| Registration: | HP-1205CMP |
| C/n / msn: | 22059/631 |
| First flight: | 1980-01-15 (12 years 5 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-15 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 40 / Occupants: 40 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 47 / Occupants: 47 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Tucuti (Panama)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | International Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Panama City-Tocumen International Airport (PTY/MPTO), Panama |
| Cali-Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport (CLO/SKCL), Colombia | |
| Flightnumber: | 201 |
Twenty minutes after leaving Panama City, the aircraft entered an area with thunderstorms at FL250.
The aircraft suddenly entered a steep descent and started to disintegrate at FL100, plunging 80deg. nose down to the ground.
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Photos
U.K. charter airline Britannia leased this Boeing 737 G-BGYL to COPA Panama on April 10, 1992. The airplane crashed just two months later.
Map
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 Panama City-Tocumen International Airport to Cali-Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport as the crow flies is 695 km (434 miles).
Distance from Panama City-Tocumen International Airport to Cali-Alfonso Bonilla Aragón Airport as the crow flies is 695 km (434 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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