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| Date: | Thursday 13 November 1980 |
| Time: | 13:38 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47 (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | SATENA |
| Registration: | FAC-1131 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 23 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | W of Subachoque -
 Colombia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | San José del Guaviare Airport (SJE/SKSJ) |
| Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
The Douglas DC-3 transport plane departed from San José del Guaviare Airport (SJE) about 13:30 on a flight to Bogotá (BOG). The crew declared an emergency several minutes after takeoff. The airplane crash-landed on a wooded slope of the Cerro Las Lajas.
Sources:
El Tiempo 14-11-1980
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