LAN Chile Flight 210
| LAN Chile Flight 210 | |
|---|---|
 the crashed DC-3 CC-CLDP |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | unexplained |
| place | La Gotera Hill, Andes , Chile |
| date | April 3, 1961 |
| Fatalities | 24 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | DC-3 |
| operator | LAN Chile |
| Mark | CC-CLDP |
| Departure airport |
Castro , Chile
|
| Stopover |
Temuco Airport , Chile
|
| Destination airport |
Santiago / Los Cerrillos , Chile
|
| Passengers | 20th |
| crew | 4th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
On April 3, 1961, a Douglas DC-3 had an accident on LAN-Chile Flight 210 in the Andes. The main wreckage of the aircraft was only discovered in February 2015.
Flight history
The Douglas DC-3 ( license number : CC-CLDP) of LAN Chile was coming from Castro via Puerto Montt at an altitude of 8,500 feet on the last leg from Temuco to Santiago de Chile . At around 23:45 GMT , the pilots applied to air traffic control in Santiago for clearance for a lower flight altitude due to icing . However, the permit was initially refused, as otherwise another machine would have been on a collision course. The crew did not respond to the later clearance to descend to 6,500 feet. On April 10, 1961, the stern and some human remains were discovered. In February 2015, after more than 50 years, the trunk and other human bones were discovered.
Inmates
Among the 24 victims, in addition to the four-man crew, were eight football players, including the Argentine national player Eliseo Mouriño , and two supervisors from the former Chilean first division football club CD Green Cross . These referees and three referees, also among the victims, came back from an away game against Osorno Seleccion in the south of the country. The rest of the crew had taken another flight. The accident is also known as the Green Cross tragedy .
plane
The aircraft was a Douglas DC-3 built in 1943, which was originally produced in the military version Douglas C-47A with the serial number 9716. It was later converted into the civilian version of the Douglas DC-3 . At the time of the accident, the machine had completed 18,300 flight hours.
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- http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/flugzeug-anden-101.html ( Memento from February 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Accident report DC-3 CC-CLDP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 1, 2020.
- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/football-teams-plane-wreck-found-5107420
- http://www.aerotelegraph.com/flug-lan-chile-201-tragoedie-green-cross-wrack-find
- http://www.zeit.de/sport/2015-02/flugzeugabsturz-green-cross-fussball-chile
Coordinates: 35 ° 59 ′ 7.7 ″ S , 71 ° 7 ′ 35.6 ″ W.