Status: Preliminary
Date: 18 NOV 2006
Time: 21:05
Type: Boeing 727-23F
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Operator: Aerosucre Colombia
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Registration: HK-3667X
C/n / msn: 19430/366
First flight: 26 JAN 1967
Engines: 3 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7B (HK3)
Crew: Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3
Passengers: Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2
Total: Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 5
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Leticia-Alfredo Vásquez Cobo Airport (LET) ( Colombia
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Phase: Approach
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Bogotá-Eldorado Airport (BOG/SKBO)
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Colombia Destination airport: Leticia-Alfredo Vásquez Cobo Airport (LET/SKLT)
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Narrative:
The Boeing 727 was on approach to Leticia when the cargo plane hit an antenna and crashed near the village of San Sebastián de los Lagos.
Weather at 21:00 at Leticia was reported to be: temperature 24 deg C, pressure 1011.1 hPa, visibility 10 km, wind calm with patches of fog.
Sources:
Cayó avión de Aerosucre en cercanías del aeropuerto de Leticia (Amazonas) (El Tiempo, 19-11-2006) Cinco muertos dejó accidente de avión carguero (El Pais, 19-11-2006)
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE BOEING 727
* Last fatal 727 hull-loss accident : 25 DEC 2003Union des Transports Africains de Guinée 3X-GDO , Cotonou, Benin- 141 fatalities
* Total number of Boeing 727 hull-losses: 103 (87 accidents, 2 hijackings, 14 other occurrences (sabotage, ground fire etc.)), of which 54 losses were fatal
* 46th worst 727 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal B727 accidents: on average 15,5% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of this airplane:
- N1935 American Airlines (FEB 1967, delivered)
- N1935 Aviation Sales Comp. (MAY 1984, converted to cargo plane)
- N1935 Flying Tiger Line (JUN 1984, leased)
- N934FT Flying Tiger Line (AUG 1984 , new registration)
- HK-3667X Aerosucre (OCT 1991)
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AIRPORT PROFILE LETICIA
* ICAO/IATA designators: SKLT / LET
* Latitude: 04° 11' 36.78" S / 069° 56' 35.39" W
* Elevation: 277 ft/ 84 m
* Runway: 03/21 (1880 x 40 meters, asphalt, no ILS)
* Current NOTAMS: https://www.notams.jcs.mil/distribution/query.html?locid=&textType=report&locidl=SKLT
OPERATOR PROFILE AEROSUCRE
Colombian cargo airline based at Barranquilla and Bogotá, operating a fleet of Boeing 737-200 and Boeing 727 planes.
* started operations: 1969
* Eighth airliner hull-loss accident
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COUNTRY PROFILE COLOMBIA
* Last fatal civil hull-loss accident: 26 MAR 2005 West Caribbean Airways Let 410, at Providencia- 8 fatalities
* 96th worst hull loss accident in Colombia
* The country is rated Cat. 1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)