2019 Colombia DC-3 Crash
The 2019 Laser Aereo DC-3 crash was an aviation accident that took place on 9 March 2019, when a Douglas DC-3 operated by Latinoamericana de Servicios Aereo ( Laser Aéreo) crashed near San Carlos de Guaroa, Colombia. The plane was on a flight from Jorge Enrique González Torres Airport, San José del Guaviare to La Vanguardia Airport, Villavicencio. All 14 people on board were killed, including the mayor of Taraira. The crew were attempting to land at Villavicencio and had just declared an emergency. Aircraft The Aeronautica Civil reports that the aircraft, registered ''HK-2494'', was built in 1945, for the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) as a Douglas TC-47B-DK (USAAF ''44-76773'' / MSN 16357 / 33105), and converted to a Douglas R4D-7 (USN Bureau Number ''99826'') for the United States Navy on 14 May 1945. Re-designated as a Douglas TC-47K in 1962, it was transferred to the University of Texas at Austin on 8 Oct 1971 with civil registration N87611. Crash As the ai ...
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San Martín, Meta
San Martín is a town and municipality in the Meta Department, Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car .... References Municipalities of Meta Department {{MetaCO-geo-stub ...
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