Incident Overview
Date: Sunday 25 February 1962
Aircraft Type: Douglas C-47A-80-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator: Avianca
Registration Number: HK-502
Location: Municipio de Marulanda –
ÿ Colombia
Phase of Flight: En route
Status: Destroyed, written off
Casualties: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Component Affected: Aircraft control system (specifically, the en route climb procedure).Aircraft control system (specifically, the en route climb procedure).
Category: Accident
A C-47 aircraft crashed after an emergency declaration due to a pilot?s erroneous en route climb to San Felix. The climb resulted in the aircraft becoming trapped in a canyon, leading to a crash in the San Felix pass.A C-47 aircraft crashed after an emergency declaration due to a pilot?s erroneous en route climb to San Felix. The climb resulted in the aircraft becoming trapped in a canyon, leading to a crash in the San Felix pass.
Description
The C-47 took off from Manizales (elevation 3380 feet) at 14:04 for a cargo flight to Bogot (elevation 8355 feet). At 14:20 the crew reported at 12500 feet over San Felix. An emergency was declared at 14:35; the plane crashed immediately after this transmission. PROBABLE CAUSE: “The accident was due to the faulty procedure on the part of the pilot who made the en route climb from Manizales to San Felix at a low altitude, so that the aircraft became trapped in a canyon and crashed in the San Felix pass at La Aguadita after stalling during a turn at 9000ft.”
Primary Cause
Pilot error ? erroneous en route climb to San Felix resulted in aircraft entrapment in a canyon.Pilot error ? erroneous en route climb to San Felix resulted in aircraft entrapment in a canyon.Share on:
