Incident Overview
Description
A Curtiss C-46 transport plane was destroyed in an accident at Santa Cruz-Viru Viru International Airport (VVI), Bolivia. Three crew members were killed, the passenger survived. The flight departed Santa Cruz (VVI) at 08:07 on a domestic cargo flight to Cobija (CIJ). Immediately after takeoff the flight radioed that it was returning to the airport, without stating a reason. The airplane was on short final to runway 16 when it pulled up sharply. Control was lost and the aircraft fell off to the right, impacting terrain about 200 m from the northern end of runway 16. Probable cause (translated from Spanish): The cause of the accident was that the aircraft, while on short finals and cleared to land, made an unusual flight maneuver by climbing almost vertically until a wing stall and plunging violently against the terrain, bursting into flames within the security area of the runway.
Source of Information
http://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2012/2012_04/nt120422/sociedad.php?n=29&-fallece-senador-gerald-ortiz-en-un-tragico-accidente-aereohttp://www.eldiario.net/noticias/2012/2012_04/nt120422/sociedad.php?n=29&-fallece-senador-gerald-ortiz-en-un-tragico-accidente-aereoPrimary Cause
Unusual flight maneuver ? climbing vertically until a wing stall and plunging violently against the terrain, resulting in a fire.Unusual flight maneuver ? climbing vertically until a wing stall and plunging violently against the terrain, resulting in a fire.Share on:
