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| Date: | Sunday 27 October 1991 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Rockwell Aero Commander 690C Jetprop 840 |
| Owner/operator: | Transporte Aéreo Ejecutivo |
| Registration: | HC-BHU |
| MSN: | 11634 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 7 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Sur Cayambe -
 Ecuador
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | SEGU |
| LQG | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Air Taxi airplane, hijacked 27-OCT-1991 between Guayaquil and Lago Agrio, Ecuador. Crew liberated, but the plane ended up with drug smugglers. It is reported that Peru's Shinning Path and Colombia's FARC were behind the incident.
Sources:
Air Britain's Business Turboprops International 2009
Global Terrorism Database - Incident Summary: https://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/search/IncidentSummary.aspx?gtdid=199110270005
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 11-Feb-2012 11:52 | Gwydd | Updated [Aircraft type, Cn, Country, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 11-Feb-2012 11:52 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, Source, ] |
| 02-Oct-2015 06:22 | lefg | Updated [Total fatalities, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Damage, Narrative, ] |
| 13-Dec-2021 01:16 | Ron Averes | Updated [Location, ] |
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