Date:	Saturday 16 May 1992
Time:	09:50
Type:	de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300
Owner/operator:	Aerotaca Colombia - Aerotransportes Casanare
Registration:	HK-2760
MSN:	777
Year of manufacture:	1981
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-27
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 16
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Minor, repaired
Category:	Unlawful Interference
Location:	rural airstrip near Caño -   Colombia
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	El Yopal Airport (EYP/SKYP)
Destination airport:	Bucaramanga-Palo Negro Airport (BGA/SKBG)

Narrative:
Four suspected National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrillas hijacked an Aerotaca DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft during a flight from Bogotá (BOG) to Bucaramanga (BGA) via El Yopal (EYP), where the hijackers boarded the aircraft. The airplane took off from El Yopal at 08:40 and was reported hijacked at 09:50.
The plane landed, and six civilian passengers were released; however, three military passengers, identified as members of a Colombian intelligence unit, were tortured and killed. The abandoned aircraft was later recovered on a rural landing strip, intact except for its missing communications equipment. The fate of the three crew members could not be determined.

Criminal Acts Against Civil Aviation 1992 / U.S. Department of Transport, FAA, Office of Civil Aviation Security
El Tiempo 19/04/1993

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