| Date: | Thursday 24 January 2008 |
| Time: | 14:55 |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3C |
| Owner/operator: | VIARCO |
| Registration: | HK-2006 |
| MSN: | 43086 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 22747 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 13 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Substantial, repaired |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Teresita Airport -
 Colombia
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| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | San Jose del Guaviare-Jorge E. González T. Airport (SJE/SKSJ) |
| Teresita Airport | |
| Investigating agency: | Aerocivil |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information verified through data from accident investigation authorities |
The DC-3 was substantially damaged during a landing accident at the Teresita Airport.
Teresita has a single runway (07/25), 630 m in length. On final approach the left hand landing gear struck a mound of sand. The landing gear collapsed on touchdown and the no. 1 engine caught fire.
CAUSE (translation from Spanish):
Using a flying technique by carrying out an inappropriatly low approach to land, causing the impact of the left hand landing gear on a mound of sand, which could have been avoided if [the pilots had] complied with the established technique of crossing the threshold of the runway at a height of 50 feet with the reference speed.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
Aerocivil
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 26 August 2020 | HK-2006 | ALIANSA Colombia | 0 | Jorge Enrique González Torres Airport (SJE/SKSJ),San Jose del Guaviare | |
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| 28 February 2021 | HK-2006 | ALIANSA Colombia | 0 | Monfort Airport (MFB) | |
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Location
Images:
photo (c) Peter Gralla; Villavicencio Airport (VVC/SKVV); March 2006
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