| Date: | Saturday 25 July 1981 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3A |
| Owner/operator: | Transamazonica Colombia |
| Registration: | HK-772 |
| MSN: | 11743 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 9 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 0,5 km from Carurú Airport (CUO) -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | |
| Carurú Airport (CUO/SKCR) |
When overflying Carurú Airport's runway 29 to inspect the surface condition, the no. 2 engine started vibrating. The crew shut the engine down, feathered the prop and started a right turn to runway 11. Airspeed dropped, and the aircraft crashed 500 m short of this runway.
Sources:
El Tiempo 28 July 1981, p8A
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