| Date: | Saturday 17 November 1956 |
| Time: | 16:45 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-49G-DO (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Aerolineas del Pacifico - ARPA |
| Registration: | HK-385 |
| MSN: | 1971 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1937 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 36 / Occupants: 36 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Cerro El Rucio -
 Colombia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Buenaventura-Gerardo Tobar López Airport (BUN/SKBU) |
| Cali Airport (CLO/SKCL) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The DC-3 was operating on a Cali-Buenaventura and return trip. Before heading back to Cali the captain asked the co-pilot for his medical certificate. The co-pilot's certificate was still at the CAA for revalidation. Because of this, the captain decided that the co-pilot should not fly on the leg to Cali. The flight engineer acted as a co-pilot on this flight. Takeoff was at 16:30. Around 16:45 the aircraft crashed into a mountain at 6200 feet, the top of which being covered by stratocumulus clouds.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Flight on instruments at an excessively low altitude for the route."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest No.8, Circular 54-AN/49 (156-159)
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