ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 324502
| Date: | Saturday 9 March 1996 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 |
| Owner/operator: | Carson Helicopters |
| Registration: | N245GW |
| MSN: | 129 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1968 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-20 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Bagua -
 Peru
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Bagua Airport (SPGU) |
| Bagua Airport (SPGU) |
The airplane departed from Bagua, Peru, about 06:17 MDT conducting an aerial geological survey near the disputed boarder with Ecuador, in the Cenepa River area over dense Amazon jungle. The airplane did not return to Bagua, and there are no known recorded radio communications with N245GW. Search and rescue operations have been uneventful, according to the Peruvian DGCA.
Sources:
NTSB
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bakersfield-Meadows Field, CA (BFL); June 1974
photo (c) Dave Melton; Los Angeles International Airport, CA (LAX/KLAX); July 1980
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