DC-3 havarerte i Colombia - ASN

 

Status:
Date:	Thursday 8 July 2021
Time:	07:05
Type:	Douglas DC-3
Operator:	ALIANSA Colombia
Registration:	HK-2820
MSN:	20171
First flight:
Crew:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Passengers:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: / Occupants: 3
Aircraft damage:	Missing
Aircraft fate:	Presumed damaged beyond repair
Location:	Guatiquia (   Colombia)
Phase:	Unknown (UNK)
Nature:	Training
Departure airport:	Villavicencio-La Vanguardia Airport (VVC/SKVV), Colombia
Destination airport:	?

Narrative:
A Douglas DC-3 is thought to have crashed shortly after takeoff in a riverbed in Guatiquia, Colombia. The aircraft was performing a training flight. The status of the three occupants is unknown at the moment.
Rescue operations are ongoing. Radar contact with the flight was lost in a mountainous area with adverse weather conditions.

Accident: Aliansa DC3 at Villavicencio on Jul 8th 2021, aircraft missing, contact lost

An Aliansa Douglas DC-3, registration HK-2820 performing a test flight from Villavicencio to Villavicencio (Colombia) with 3 crew, was climbing out of Villavicencio about 5 minutes after the departure when radar and radio contact was lost. The aircraft has not landed at any airport. A search for the missing aircraft is underway.

Colombia's Aerocivil reported the DC-3 HK-2820 is missing since 07:05L (12:05Z), when radar and radio contact was lost, after departure from Villavicencio at 07:00L (12:00Z).

Local media report the crew declared emergency shortly after departure, the search is currently focussing on the Guatiquia river canyon east of the aerodrome.

Colombia's Civil Defense reported the aircraft was on a training mission, it has not yet been found.

Colombian Authorities reported the aircraft had been repaired and performed a test flight. The aircraft is suspected in the Guatiquia river canyon northwest of the aerodrome between the villages of Restrepo and El Cavario at an altitude of about 1600-1700 meters.

No Metars are available for SKVV, the local weather station reported at 08:00L light drizzle, temperature at 22 degrees C, dew point 21 degrees C, humidity 94%, winds from westnorthwest at 7kph (4 knots), Pressure 966 hPa. At 11:00L there were thunderstorms reported.