1938 Santa Ana air show disaster

Aviation incident in Colombia October 2019 Accident 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster Hawk II F11C.jpg A similar Hawk II of the Colombian Air Force 1938 07 24 yes Pilot error Campo de Marte, Bogotá, Colombia 04 41 07 N 074 02 15 W inline,title Curtiss Hawk II Colombian Air Force 1 100+ (on ground) 53 (including 52 on ground) http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1938/1938-28.htm Plane Crash info.com 7 February 2014 Accident Details The 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster occurred on 24 July 1938 at a military review on the Campo de Marte in the Santa Ana district of Bogotá, Colombia. During the review, a Curtiss Hawk II biplane of the Colombian Air Force piloted by Lieutenant César Abadia performed a stunt before crashing into a grandstand and then into the crowd. The pilot attempted to fly between the presidential stand and the stand for diplomats when he miscalculated the distance and the aircraft's wing-tip struck the diplomatic stand. The Hawk II destroyed part of the roof of the presidential stand and then careened through the crowd bursting into flames before it came to a stop upside down.Plane's Crash into Crowd – 140 Killed and Injured 26 July 1938 12 48056 Over fifty people, including civilians and soldiers were killed, and over a hundred injured. http://planecrashinfo.com/1938/1938-28.htm Accident Synopsis – 1938-28 planecrashinfo.com 7 February 2014 Among those in the presidential stand but uninjured were the outgoing Colombian President Alfonso López Pumarejo and his successor Eduardo Santos. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30510546 The Advertiser 7 February 2014 25 July 1938 Plane crashes into crowd as number killed Among the wounded was Misael Pastrana Borrero, a future president of Colombia. See also Lists of air show accidents and incidents Sknyliv air show disaster – another air show disaster caused by a single military aircraft and resulting in over 50 fatalities References Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Colombia Category:1938 in Colombia Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1938 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents at air shows Category:July 1938 in South America Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving military aircraft