| Date: | Monday 16 August 1976 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Boeing 720-047B |
| Owner/operator: | Avianca |
| Registration: | HK-723 |
| MSN: | 18061/197 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1961 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney JT3D-3B |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 127 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Mexico City-Juarez International Airport (MEX) -
 Mexico
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO) |
| Mexico City-Benito Juárez International Airport (MEX/MMMX) |
The aircraft lifted off again when passing through a rain squall on landing, stalled and dropped onto the nosegear.
Sources:
El Tiempo 18 Aug. 1976
Location
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Mexico City-Juarez International Airport (MEX); September 1977
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG); August 1974
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