| Date: | Wednesday 10 June 1970 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Fokker F-27 Friendship 400M |
| Owner/operator: | Lineas Aéreas del Estado - LADE |
| Registration: | TC-75 |
| MSN: | 10411 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1969 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 838 hours |
| Cycles: | 944 flights |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 8 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Huaricanga -
 Peru
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | |
Crashed into a 4500 m high mountain.
TC-55 was on relief operations during the Ancash earthquake of May 31st 1970, which killed 70000 people and made 800000 homeless.
Sources:
Airnieuws 313 (p. 16)
Willem Wendt
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