| Date: | Tuesday 18 December 1979 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-54D-10-DC (DC-4) |
| Owner/operator: | SATENA |
| Registration: | FAC-1106 |
| MSN: | 10853 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 21 / Occupants: 21 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cerro Toledo -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Arauca-Santiago Pérez Airport (AUC/SKUC) |
| Cúcuta-Camilo Daza Airport (CUC/SKCC) |
A Douglas C-54 of military airline SATENA was destroyed when it impacted a mountainside at an altitude of 3400 m. All twenty-one on board (five crew, 15 passengers and a newborn baby) were killed.
The airplane operated on a flight from Arauca to Cúcuta, Colombia and crashed between Pamplona and Cúcuta.
Sources:
El Tiempo 21 December 1979, p5A
El Tiempo 22 December 1979, p1+12A
El Tiempo 4 January 1979, p6B
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