Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 08 APR 1999 |
| Time: | ca 11:35 |
| Type: | de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 |
| Operator: | Aerotaca Colombia - Aerotransportes Casanare |
| Registration: | HK-2760 |
| C/n / msn: | 777 |
| First flight: | 1981 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near Málaga (Colombia)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Bucaramanga-Palo Negro Airport (BGA/SKBG), Colombia |
| Málaga (SKLA), Colombia |
The Twin Otter was on a flight from Bucaramanga to Malaga. At 11:33 the pilot reported ten minutes out of Malaga. This was the last radio contact with the flight. The aircraft was found to have crashed into the fog-shrouded La Caida hill at 8000 feet amsl . Weather at Bucaramanga at 11:00 was temperature 20 deg C; 1017mB, wind calm with drizzle and fog. The accident site is 8 km off the procedural descent pattern.
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Sources:
» El Espectador
» Reuters
» World Airline Accident Summary- Airclaims
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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.
