| Date: | Sunday 29 September 1991 |
| Time: | 11:50 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | CORAL Colombia |
| Registration: | HK-3238 |
| MSN: | 30268 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 1,5 km NE of Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC) -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV) |
| Mitú Airport (MVP/SKMU) |
The Curtiss C-46A cargo plane took off from Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport, Colombia at 11:43 for a flight to Mitú.
Shortly after takeoff the no. 2 engine oversped. The crew attempted to return to the airport. Unable to reach the airport, the aircraft force landed. The aircraft ran through a ditch, broke up and caught fire.
Sources:
Scramble 152 (p.37)
El Tiempo 30-9-1991
Location
Images:
photo (c) Karl Krämer, via W.Fischdick; Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC); January 1987
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