Date: | Tuesday 25 March 2003 |
Time: | 19:20 |
Type: | Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
Owner/operator: | One Leasing |
Registration: | N5512B |
MSN: | 208B0299 |
Year of manufacture: | 1992 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | near El Paujil -
Colombia
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Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
Nature: | Survey |
Departure airport: | Larandia Air Base |
Destination airport: | Larandia Air Base |
Investigating agency: | Aerocivil |
Confidence Rating: | Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
Narrative:The Caravan plane N5512B was the second plane used on classified counter-drug intelligence missions on behalf of the U.S. military. The other Caravan N1116G had crashed near Florencia on February 13. Three crew members were taken hostage by FARC rebels in the area. N5512 departed Bogota and landed at the Larandia Air Base where it refueled. At 19:06 the airplane departed Larandia for a reconnaissance flight to find three Americans who where taken hostage. It banked slightly west after takeoff, then turned northeast towards a mountainous area. Nine minutes after takeoff, 13 miles from the runway, the Cessna contacted a large tree on a ridgeline at an altitude of about 4500 feet. The airplane yawed violently, rolled into a near vertical dive and impacted the bottom of a brush-covered gully 1500 feet below the ridge where the aircraft disintegrated on impact and caught fire.
Accident investigation:
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Investigating agency: | Aerocivil |
Report number: | COL-03-09-GIA |
Status: | Investigation completed |
Duration: | |
Download report: | Final report |
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Sources:
Avioneta de EE.UU. cae en Colombia (BBC Mundo, 26-3-2003)
Flying blind, by John McQuaid (The Times-Picayune 10-11-2003)
Aeronautica Civil, Informe Preliminar 200309
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