Avianca Flight 203
| Avianca Flight 203 | |
|---|---|
 The downed HK-1803 airplane |
|
| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Bomb attack |
| place | near Soacha , Colombia |
| date | November 27, 1989 |
| Fatalities | 107 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Fatalities on the ground | 3 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 727-100 |
| operator | Avianca |
| Departure airport |
El Dorado Airport , Bogotá , Colombia
|
| Destination airport |
Cali Airport , Colombia
|
| Passengers | 101 |
| crew | 6th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On November 27, 1989, a Boeing 727-100 crashed on Avianca flight 203 ( flight number : AV203) as a result of a bomb explosion near the Colombian city of Soacha . The plane of the airline Avianca was to operate a domestic scheduled flight from El Dorado Airport in Bogotá to Cali Airport . All 107 inmates were killed in the attack. In addition, three other people were killed on the ground by debris.
Airplane and occupants
The Boeing 727-100 ( registration number : HK-1803, c / n : 19035, s / n : 272) was delivered to Pan American World Airways on May 28, 1966 . Avianca took over the aircraft on November 19, 1975 and then used it continuously.
On the domestic flight on November 27, 1989, there were 101 passengers on board the machine, including two US citizens. The crew consisted of the two pilots, a flight engineer and three flight attendants .
Flight history
The Boeing 727 took off from El Dorado Airport at 7:11 a.m. local time . Five minutes after take-off, an explosive device that had been placed under a passenger seat in the middle of the cabin, directly above the right wing, detonated while climbing . The machine was at an altitude of 13,000 feet MSL (3960 meters ) at this point in time .
The detonation of the explosive device tore a hole in the ship's side and destroyed several electrical and hydraulic lines as well as a fuel line to the engines at the stern, causing a fire in the fuselage. In addition, an empty fuel tank in the right wing was damaged. The fuel vapors in this tank ignited a few seconds later, causing a second explosion that caused severe damage to the wing structure. The plane crashed while burning and hit hilly terrain about 16 kilometers southwest of El Dorado Airport.
Motivation and perpetrator
It is certain that the drug lord Pablo Escobar commissioned the attack. His goal was probably the murder of several informants that against the run of his Medellin cartel wanting to testify and personal security were the Colombian police. The men were killed in the crash. There is also the thesis that Pablo Escobar wanted to assassinate the presidential candidate César Gaviria . But this was not on board.
Pablo Escobar died on 2 December 1993 in access a US / Colombian elite unit in Medellin . According to witnesses, the device was brought on board by Dandeny “La Quica” Muñoz Mosquera , a drug cartel contract killer who had previously carried out several attacks. He later traveled to the United States with his brother Brance Muñoz Mosquera under a false name and was arrested in 1991 in the New York borough of Queens . After Dandeny Munñz Mosquera was sentenced to six years imprisonment by a US court in 1992 for violating entry regulations and using a false identity, further investigations into him followed. In December 1994, it condemned the Federal District Court in Brooklyn for the murder of two US citizens aboard the airliner to life imprisonment.
See also
Web links
- Accident Report B-727-100 HK-1803 , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on February 3, 2019.
- Alan Prendergast: The Hit Man Nobody Knows - Westword, May 17, 2001
- Documentation about the attack on YouTube
Individual evidence
- ↑ rzjets.com, Boeing 727-21, HK-1803, c / n: 19035/272 , accessed January 7, 2017
- ^ A b David Gero: Aviation disasters - accidents with passenger aircraft since 1950 , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 978-3-613-01580-7
- ^ A b c d David Gero: Flights of Terror , Patrick Stephens Ltd., Sparkford 1997, ISBN 1-85260-512-X .
- ↑ a b The New York Times, Drug Trafficker Convicted Of Blowing Up Jetliner, December 20, 1994 , accessed January 7, 2017.
- ↑ aerotelegraph.com: When the Narcos took a plane from the sky, November 26, 2015 , accessed on January 7, 2017.
- ↑ Los Angeles Times, No. 1 Hit Man of Medellin Cartel Killed by Police, October 29, 1992 , accessed January 7, 2017.
Coordinates: 4 ° 35 ′ 0 ″ N , 74 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ W.