1976 Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident
Bogota-Eldorado Airport | |
| Destination | La Macarena Airport |
|---|---|
| Occupants | 13 |
| Passengers | 10 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 13 |
| Survivors | 0 |
On 15 January 1976, a Taxi Aereo el Venado DC-4 crashed into a mountain 50 km (31 mi; 27 nmi) from
Accident
The aircraft was on a domestic charter flight from Bogota-Eldorado Airport to La Macarena Airport with three crew and ten passengers.[1] The aircraft took-off at 11:37 and the pilot reported his departure and said he would call at the next reporting point over El Boqueron.[2] Nothing else was heard from the aircraft despite attempts by Air Traffic Control to contact them.[2] Three hours later the local authorities in Chipaque reported that an aircraft had hit one of the peaks of the Western Cordilera at a height 3,540 m (11,610 ft), which had been hidden by clouds.[2]
Aircraft
The four-engined
References
- CAP 479 - World Airline Accident Summary - Volume 2: 1976 onwards. London: ISBN 0-86039-344-5.
- Douglas DC-4. Air-Britain. 1967.
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