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| Date: | Wednesday 23 October 1985 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Cessna 182P Skylane |
| Owner/operator: | private |
| Registration: | TG-CET |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Santa Bárbara, Suchitepéquez -
 Guatemala
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Private |
| Departure airport: | La Aurora airport |
| Departamento of Suchitepéquez | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
On October 23, 1985, the Consul General of Norway to the State of Guatemala, Norman Petersen Lind, his son in law, agronomist Klaus Alois Herold, agronomist Erasmo Sánchez Arce, and the aircraft pilot Captain Arturo García Bran were traveling in a light aircraft towards a farm with the name of Panama, located in the Departamento of Suchitepéquez. Moments after landing, the plane hit an explosive, blowing to bits, and causing the death of the four persons on board.
Sources:
http://www.cidh.oas.org/annualrep/2006eng/GUATEMALA.298.05eng.htm
La Nación 24 October 1985, p36A
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 27-Sep-2008 01:00 | ASN archive | Added |
| 03-Apr-2014 16:09 | gerard57 | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Operator, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 03-Apr-2014 17:06 | harro | Updated [Aircraft type, ] |
| 02-Aug-2017 14:00 | TB | Updated [Operator, Location, ] |
| 05-Oct-2017 12:01 | TB | Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
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