| Date: | Thursday 9 December 1982 |
| Time: | 13:27 |
| Type: |  Fairchild F-27A |
| Owner/operator: | Aeronor Chile |
| Registration: | CC-CJE |
| MSN: | 63 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1959 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 47357 hours |
| Engine model: | Rolls-Royce Dart 532-7 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 46 / Occupants: 46 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | La Serena-La Florida Airport (LSC) -
 Chile
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Santiago-Los Cerrillos Airport (ULC/SCTI) |
| La Serena-La Florida Airport (LSC/SCSE) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Aeronor Chile flight 304, a Fairchild F-27A, crashed while on approach to La Serena Airport, Chile, killing all 46 occupants.
After a 1h20 minutes flight from Santiago, the F-27 approached La Serena runway 11. suddenly the aircraft banked left and started a steep descent, crashing into the ground in a nose-up attitude, 2000 m short of the runway. The aircraft burst into flames immediately.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Inadequate flight planning by the pilot-in-command in co-ordinating the adoption of measures and applying procedures to successfully remedy a stall condition caused by total loss of power in the left engine when the aircraft was flying at low altitude on final approach to land, in landing configuration"
Sources:
ICAO Circular 191-AN/116
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
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| 27-Oct-2024 20:17 | ASN | Updated [Narrative, ] |
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