| Date: | Friday 8 December 1978 |
| Time: | 18:25 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-6A/B |
| Owner/operator: | Líneas Aéreas del Caribe - LAC Colombia |
| Registration: | HK-1707 |
| MSN: | 44687/535 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1954 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Aircraft missing, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Sierra Cucuy -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Port of Spain-Piarco Airport (POS/TTPP) |
| Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
The DC-6 cargo plane went missing during a flight from Puerto España, Trinidad & Tobago to Bogotá.
Last radio contact was at 18:23, seventeen minutes before the estimated arrival time.
Sources:
El Tiempo 9 December 1978, p11D
El Tiempo 10 December 1978, p6B
El Tiempo 12 December 1978, p1+1C
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Detroit-Willow Run Airport, MI (YIP); August 1975
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