Accident | |
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Date | 26 August 1981 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) |
Site | Cerro Matiqui, Colombia |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Vickers Viscount 745D |
Aircraft name | Ciudad de Popayana |
Operator | Aeropesca Colombia |
Registration | HK-1320 |
Flight origin | Florencia-Gustavo Artunduaga Paredes Airport (FLA/SKFL), Florencia, Colombia |
Destination | Neiva Airport, Colombia |
Passengers | 44 |
Crew | 6 |
Fatalities | 50 |
Survivors | 0 |
Aeropesca Colombia Flight 221 was an internal scheduled passenger flight from Florencia Airport to Neiva Airport in Colombia. On 26 August 1981 it was being operated by a Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner registered in Colombia as HK-1320 when it collided with Mount Santa Elana, an Andean mountain peak, destroying the aircraft and killing all 50 on board.[1]