| Date: | Tuesday 5 December 1972 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Latin Carga |
| Registration: | YV-C-TGE |
| MSN: | 26730 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Galapa -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Kingston Airport (KIN/MKJP) |
| Barranquilla-Ernesto Cortissoz International Airport (BAQ/SKBQ) |
The C-46 cargo plane was damaged beyond repair when it force landed in trees, some 10 km from the destination Barranquilla, Colombia. The three crew members were not injured.
Sources:
El Siglo de Torreón 6 December 1972, p4
El Tiempo - 6 December 1972, p2B
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 25 April 1944 | 42-3597 | United States Army Air Force - USAAF | 3 | near Imphal |  |
w/o |
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Barranquilla-Ernesto Cortissoz Airport (BAQ/SKBQ); August 1974
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