ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 323864
| Date: | Sunday 1 November 1998 |
| Time: | 14:30 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-90-DL (DC-3C) |
| Owner/operator: | Living Water Teaching Ministries |
| Registration: | N3FY |
| MSN: | 20562 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 11 / Occupants: 18 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Quetzaltenango -
 Guatemala
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Playa Grande Airport (PKJ) |
| Quetzaltenango Airport (AAZ/MGQZ) |
The DC-3 was on a flight from Playa Grande when it crashed into mountainous terrain near Quetzaltenango Airport. Instrument meteorological conditions (thick fog and rain) prevailed and no flight plan was reported filed. The bad weather was due to the tropical depression Mitch.
The plane carried doctors from the Christian Agua Viva missionary group who had done medical relief work in Playa Grande.
Sources:
NTSB id MIA99WA023
Tommy Maurer
Location
Images:
photo (c) Geoff Sobering; Oshkosh-Wittman Field, WI (OSH); 1997
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Ogden Municipal Airport, UT (OGD); September 1993
photo (c) James Zirkle; Quetzaltenango Airport (/MGQZ); 1998
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