Accident | |
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Date | 23 April 1979 |
Summary | Cause unknown; possible controlled flight into terrain |
Site | Pastaza Province, Ecuador |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Vickers 785D Viscount |
Operator | SAETA |
IATA flight No. | EH11 |
ICAO flight No. | SET11 |
Call sign | SAETA 011 |
Registration | HC-AVP |
Flight origin | Quito-Mariscal Sucre Airport, Ecuador |
Destination | Cuenca Airport, Ecuador |
Occupants | 57 |
Passengers | 52 |
Crew | 5 |
Fatalities | 57 |
Survivors | 0 |
On 23 April 1979, SAETA Flight 011, a Vickers Viscount passenger aircraft of Ecuadorian airline SAETA, crashed in a mountainous region of Pastaza Province, Ecuador, killing all 57 people on board. The wreckage of the aircraft was not found until five years later.[1]