Accident Antonov An-32B HK-3930X, Tuesday 22 December 1998

Date:	Tuesday 22 December 1998
Time:	00:14
Type:	Antonov An-32B
Owner/operator:	SELVA Colombia
Registration:	HK-3930X
MSN:	3309
Year of manufacture:	1993
Total airframe hrs:	3106 hours
Engine model:	Ivchenko AI-20D
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	1,2 km S of Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport (MDE) - Colombia
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO)
Destination airport:	Rionegro/Medellín-José María Córdova Airport (MDE/SKRG)
Investigating agency:	Aerocivil
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Antonov had taken off from Bogotá to fly a cargo of newspapers to Rionegro. The plane crashed while approaching runway 36 in fog, about 1 km from the airport boundary. The weather was below minima.
Coincidentally, two years and one day earlier (21 December 1996) another Selva An-32 crashed on approach to Rionegro.

PROBABLE CAUSE:
Operational decisions by the crew to make a landing at an airport that was under minimum weather conditions and not to perform the aborted approach procedure.

Accident investigation: