Date: | Monday 9 March 1987 |
Time: | 23:30 |
Type: | Douglas C-47A-50-DL (DC-3) |
Owner/operator: | Aero Express |
Registration: | N49454 |
MSN: | 10177 |
Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | UI |
Location: | near Guarita -
Honduras
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Illegal Flight |
Departure airport: | |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The DC-3 was shot down by a Honduran Air Force Dassault Mystère fighter plane after the pilot failed to identify himself. The aircraft used the fake callsign HK-303.
Officials said that they suspected the plane was involved in smuggling narcotics.
The airplane had departed Guatemala City at 09:39 on a test flight to El Estor. After takeoff the crew radioed that they wanted to return to Guatemala City. That was the last contact with the flight.
Sources:
La Nación 11 March 1987, p1+24A
Air Combat Information Group
Aviation Letter 247
NY Times, 11-3-1987 El Siglo de Torreon 11 March 1987, p.6
El Siglo de Torreon 12 March 1987, p.28
Images:
photo (c) Terence Burke; Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA); August 1985
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