Draft:Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas Flight 4246
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 The aircraft involved under a previuos operator | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 18 December 2003 |
| Summary | Structural failure which led to loss of control |
| Site | Eastern Resguardo Nukak-Maku, Colombia 2°19′48.6″N 70°47′25.9″W / 2.330167°N 70.790528°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15F |
| Operator | Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas |
| IATA flight No. | 4L4246 |
| ICAO flight No. | LAU4246 |
| Call sign | SURAMERICANO 4246 |
| Registration | HK-4246X |
| Flight origin | El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá, Colombia |
| 1st stopover | El Alcaraván Airport, Yopal, Colombia |
| Destination | Mitú Airport, Mitú, Colombia |
| Occupants | 3 |
| Passengers | 0 |
| Crew | 3 |
| Fatalities | 3 |
| Survivors | 0 |
On December 18 2003 Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas Flight 4246, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15F operating a non-scheduled cargo flight from Bogotá to Mitú, Colombia, with a stopover in El Alcaraván Airport, crashed in the colombian Amazon after a structural failure. All three crew members on board were killed. The wreckage of flight 4246 was found ten days after the crash.[1]
Background
[edit]Aircraft
[edit]The aircraft involved was a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15F, built in 1967, registered as HK-4246X, and delivered to Líneas Aéreas Suramericanas in 2002.[2]
Crew and cargo
[edit]The pilot was 50 years old Armando Enrique, which had 13768 flight hours of which 8054 on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9. The first officer was 25 years old Andres Eduardo, which had 2300 flight hours of which 601 on the McDonnell Douglas DC-9. There was also a third person onboard. The aircraft was transporting 9390 kg of various cargo.[3]
Accident
[edit]The first leg of the flight, from El Dorado International Airport to El Alcaraván Airport went uneventful. At 4:30 pm local time flight 4246 took off from El Alcaraván Airport, after a refueling stopover, and headed towards Mitú. At 5:08 pm the last radio contact with the aircraft happened when the crew contacted the air traffic controller of the Mitú informing them that they were descending trought 25000 feet. About a minute later, when the aircraft was at an altitude of 23300 feet, the crew heard a loud noise, then they lost control of the aircraft which started descending and crashed about 135 km north-east of Mitú.[3][4] Due to the deep jungle and the presence of armed groups affiliated with drug cartels in the area, the aircraft wreckage was found only ten days after the crash.
Investigation
[edit]The analysis of both flight recorders, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder, suggest that some sort of technical malfunction occurred in mid-flight, which led to a sudden loss of control from which the pilots could not recover. The final report stated that the detachment of a structural part of the aircraft in mid-flight for unknown reasons was the cause of the loss of control and subsequent crash of flight 4246.
References
[edit]- ^ "Loss of control Accident Mitù McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15F". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
- ^ "HK-4246X Lineas Aereas Suramericanas (LAS Cargo) McDonnell Douglas DC-9-15(F)". Aviation Safety Network. 11 October 2019. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
- ^ a b . Aerocivil https://www.aerocivil.gov.co/autoridad-de-la-aviacion-civil/investigacion/Histricos%20Accidentes/HK-4246X.pdf. Retrieved 2025-02-09.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "ENCUENTRAN ESTRELLADO AVIÓN DE CARGA". El Tiempo. 30 December 2003. Retrieved 2025-02-09.