ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 329510
| Date: | Monday 27 October 1975 |
| Time: | 06:45 |
| Type: |  Convair CV-440-12 |
| Owner/operator: | Transporte Aéreo Militar - TAM |
| Registration: | TAM-44 |
| MSN: | 328 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1956 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 67 / Occupants: 67 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cerro Colorado -
 Bolivia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Tomonoco |
| La Paz-El Alto Airport (LPB/SLLP) |
The airfield of Tomonoco is located on a tropical plain below the snow-capped peaks of the Andes mountain range. Pilots have to climb to FL100 to cross the mountains to La Paz. The airplane failed to climb sufficiently because it was overloaded and crashed in the Cerro Colorado mountains northeast of La Paz. The airplane carried military officers with their wives and children.
Sources:
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
Location
Images:
photo (c) Peter Donaldson; Mildenhall RAF Station (MHZ/EGUN); 21 May 1972
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