Faucett Peru Flight 251

Faucett Peru Flight 251
A Boeing 737-200 from Faucett Perú, similar to the one that crashed
Accident summary
Accident type	Controlled flight into terrain
place	near Arequipa , Peru
date	February 29, 1996
Fatalities	123
Survivors	0
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-222
operator	Faucett Perú
Mark	OB-1451
Departure airport	Lima Airport , Peru
Stopover	Rodríguez Ballón Airport , Arequipa , Peru
Destination airport	Coronel FAP Carlos Ciriani Santa Rosa Airport , Peru
Passengers	117
crew	6th
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On the Faucett-Perú flight 251 on February 29, 1996, a Boeing 737-222 with the aircraft registration number OB-1451 of the Faucett Perú , with which a flight was carried out from Lima via Arequipa to Tacna , was hit shortly before the stopover in Arequipa Flown mountain. All 123 people on board the machine were killed in the accident.

plane

In the affected machine, it was a Boeing 737-222, which in the work of Boeing on the Boeing Field in the state of Washington was finally assembled and completed its first flight on October 21, 1968th The aircraft had the factory number 19072, it was the 86th Boeing 737 from ongoing production. The machine was delivered brand new to United Airlines on October 28, 1968 , which commissioned it with the aircraft registration number N9034U and gave it the name City of Merced . From June 14, 1971, the aircraft was leased to Aloha Airlines , and from September 15, 1971, this was done under the new aircraft registration number N73714 . In June 1975, Aloha Airlines finally bought the machine, from October 30, 1980 it leased it to Air California , which renamed AirCal on April 6, 1981 and operated the machine from January 13, 1982 with the new aircraft registration number N459AC . With the takeover of the airline by American Airlines , the machine was transferred to the fleet on July 1, 1987. The machine was then the BIA Cor Holdings Inc. sold. From March 2, 1989, Boeing leased it to Braniff International Airways , where the machine was given the fleet number 515 . In the meantime, the lessor changed. As of July 15, 1991, the IAL leased the machine to Faucett Perú . The twin- engined narrow -body aircraft was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-9 engines.

Passengers and crew

The machine during its service life with Braniff International Airways in 1989

There were 117 people on board the machine, they came from six different countries, with the vast majority being Peruvians and Chileans . The entire six-person crew came from Peru.

nationality	Passengers	crew	total
Peru	77	6th	83
Chile	33	-	33
Belgium	2	-	2
Canada	2	-	2
Bolivia	2	-	2
Brazil	1	-	1
total	117	6th	123

the accident

The aircraft that took off from Jorge Chávez International Airport was on a nighttime DME approach to runway 09 of Rodríguez Ballón International Airport in Arequipa. At the time of the approach, rain and fog prevailed in the region and thunderstorms were reported. The pilots assumed that the machine was flying at an altitude of 9,500 feet (about 2,900 meters), while the actual altitude was 8,640 feet (about 2,630 meters), bringing the machine to 850 feet (about 260 meters) ) was under the glide path. This was because the crew flew the machine with a barometric altimeter setting that was no longer up-to-date .

The cockpit crew asked air traffic control to light up the runway lights, as they could not see them during the approach, although they should already be visible at this point. The air traffic controller replied that the lights were already on at full intensity. Shortly afterwards, at 8:25 p.m., the machine collided with a ridge at an altitude of 2,500 meters, 62 meters below the airport runway threshold, which is located at an altitude of 2,562 meters. The scene of the accident was two kilometers from the runway threshold. The rear part of the fuselage broke off on impact and the main part of the fuselage flew past the initial ridge and impacted near the tip of the second ridge. The tail fell into a crevasse between the two ridges. All 123 occupants of the machine were killed.

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• Accident Report 737-200, OB-1451 on the Aviation Safety Network
• Operating history 737-200, OB-1451 on planespotters.net

Coordinates: 16 ° 20 ′ 27 ″  S , 71 ° 34 ′ 9 ″  W.