Status:	Preliminary - official
Date:	24 JAN 2008
Time:	14:55
Type:	Douglas DC-3C
Operator:	VIARCO
Registration:	HK-2006
C/n / msn:	43086
First flight:	1946
Total airframe hrs:	22747
Engines:	2 Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Crew:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 10
Total:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13
Airplane damage:	Substantial
Airplane fate:	Repaired
Location:	Teresita Airport (Colombia)
Phase:	Landing (LDG)
Nature:	Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport:	San Jose del Guaviare-Jorge E. González T. Airport (SJE/SKSJ), Colombia
Destination airport:	Teresita Airport, Colombia

Narrative:
The DC-3 was substantialy damaged during a landing accident at the Teresita Airport.
Teresita has a single runway (07/25), 630 m in length. On final approach the left hand landing gear struck a mound of sand. The landing gear collapsed on touchdown and the nr.1 engine caught fire.

CAUSA: "Utilizar una técnica de vuelo inadecuada consistente en hacer una aproximación para el aterrizaje demasiadó baja, que ocasionó el impacto del tren de aterrizaje izquierdo contra un monticulo de arena, que hubiera podido evitarse si se cumple lo establecido en la tecnica establecida de cruzar el umbral de la pista a 50 pies de altura con la velocidad de referencia."

CAUSE (translation from Spanish):
Using a flying technique by carrying out an inappropriatly low approach to land, causing the impact of the left hand landing gear on a mound of sand, which could have been avoided if [the pilots had] complied with the established technique of crossing the threshold of the runway at a height of 50 feet with the reference speed.

Sources:
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