1976 Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident

1976 Aviation Accident Over Colombia Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident DC-4 Western Air Lines (8557804237).jpg A DC-4 similar to the accident aircraft 1.15 15 January 1976 Controlled flight into terrain Accident Western Cordilera, near Chipaque, Colombia 4.4 N 73.8255 W title,inline Bogotá-El Dorado Airport La Macarena Airport 13 13 Douglas DC-4 Taxi Aereo el Venado HK-127 10 3 0 On 15 January 1976, a Taxi Aereo el Venado DC-4 crashed into a mountain 50 km mi nmi on from Bogotá killing all the thirteen people on board.19760115-0 Accident The aircraft was on a domestic charter flight from Bogotá-El Dorado Airport to La Macarena Airport, with three crew and ten passengers. 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. Nothing else was heard from the aircraft despite attempts by Air Traffic Control to contact them. Three hours later, the local authorities in Chipaque reported that an aircraft had hit one of the peaks of the Western Cordillera at a height of 3540 m ft on. The mountain had been hidden by clouds.CAP 479 - World Airline Accident Summary - Volume 2: 1976 onwards 1974 Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom) London 0-86039-344-5 2, 76 Aircraft The four-engined Douglas DC-4, former military Douglas C-54E, registered HK-127, was built in the United States by Douglas in Chicago. It was delivered to the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) on 26 January 1944 and was sold after the war to Pan Am, later Avianca, until sold in 1972 to Taxi Aereo el Venado.Douglas DC-4 Air-Britain 1967 32 References Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1976 Category:1976 in Colombia Category:Airliner accidents and incidents involving controlled flight into terrain Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Douglas DC-4 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Colombia Category:January 1976 in South America