Passengers 49 Survivors 0 Date 15 February 1947 Operator Avianca Passenger count 49 | Fatalities 53 Aircraft type Douglas DC-4 Number of deaths 53 Survivor 0 Crew count 4 | |
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Summary CFIT due to pilot/navigation error Site Mount El Tablazo, near Bogotá, Colombia Similar Eastern Air Lines Flight 605, 1947 Croydon Dakota a, United Airlines Flight 521, Pennsylvania Central Airlines Fl, Pan Am Flight 923 | ||
On February 15, 1947, an Avianca Douglas DC-4 registered C-114 crashed into Mount El Tablazo en route from Barranquilla to Bogotá, Colombia, killing all 53 people on board.
Mount El Tablazo was shrouded in fog when, at 12:18 local time, the aircraft crashed into it at an elevation of about 10,500 feet. The cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error, with the crew deviating from the designated airway and flying below a safe altitude.
The crash was the deadliest aviation disaster of 1947, and was eventually tied with the crash of an Eastern Air Lines DC-4 near Baltimore three months later.
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