Pucallpa

Flight Type:

Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair

Survivors:

Yes

Site:

Plain, Valley

Schedule:

Contamana – Pucallpa

MSN:

BL-5

YOM:

1980

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Captain / Total flying hours:

17659

Copilot / Total flying hours:

334

Copilot / Total hours on type:

131

Aircraft flight hours:

12334

Aircraft flight cycles:

9666

Circumstances:

The twin engine aircraft departed Contamana Airport at 1128LT on a charter flight to Pucallpa, carrying 11 passengers and two pilots. Few minutes after takeoff, while climbing to an altitude of 4,500 feet, the right engine lost power and failed. The crerw decided to return to Contamana but was able to transfer fuel from the left tank to the right tank to restart the right engine. Decision was taken to continue to Pucallpa at an altitude of 13,500 feet. At a distance of 42 km from Pucallpa, the crew started the descent when the right engine failed again, followed shortly later by the left engine. The captain declared an emergency and attempted an emergency landing when the aircraft crashed in a wooded area. All 13 occupants were injured and the aircraft was destroyed.

Probable cause:

Double engine failure in flight due to fuel starvation, forcing the crew to attempt an emergency landing in trees.
The following contributing factors were identified:
- Recurrent failures on the ground and in flight of the aircraft fuel quantity indicators, a situation that was maintained because the Maintenance Programme did not include an inspection and calibration of the fuel quantity gauges.
- Initiating the flight with a fuel indication system inoperative.
- Complacency on part of the crew who decided to continue the flight by having an aerodrome nearby after the first engine failure.

Final Report:

Crash of a Cessna T207A Turbo Stationair 8 near Uchuquinua: 3 killed

Date & Time: Oct 9, 2016 at 0900 LT

Type of aircraft:

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Registration:

OB-1936-P

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Site:

Landing (descent or approach)

Schedule:

Trujillo - Pucallpa

MSN:

207-0767

YOM:

1984

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Circumstances:

The single engine aircraft was completing a charter flight from Trujillo to Pucallpa, carrying two pilots and pilot. While cruising over the Cajamarca Province, the pilot encountered poor weather conditions with heavy rain falls. He modified his route and was able to continue under VFR mode in good weather conditions. Nevertheless, he continued at an insufficient altitude when the aircraft impacted ground and crashed in a mountainous area. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and all three occupants were killed. There was no fire.

Probable cause:

The accident was the consequence of a loss of situational awareness of the pilots, by not making a continuous surveillance during the VFR flight in good weather conditions, not determining timely the corrections of direction or altitude, which finally led them to fail to fly over the ground of the new route adopted in flight, generating a probable aerodynamic loss at the limit of the performance of the aircraft, occurring a CFIT accident.
Contributing factors:
- Limited or poor use of the available GPS Terrain Proximity Warning system.
- Poor or erroneous appreciation of the weather conditions at the beginning of the flight, which led them to vary the route to fly over terrain with higher elevation.
- Limited appreciation of terrain height on the new route in relation to the selected cruising altitude.

Final Report:

Crash of a Boeing 737-244 in Pucallpa: 40 killed

Date & Time: Aug 23, 2005 at 1509 LT

Type of aircraft:

Boeing 737-200

Operator:

Registration:

OB-1809-P

Flight Phase:

Flight Type:

Scheduled Revenue Flight

Survivors:

Yes

Site:

Airport (less than 10 km from airport)

Schedule:

Lima - Pucallpa - Iquitos

MSN:

22580

YOM:

1981

Flight number:

TJ204

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Captain / Total flying hours:

5867

Captain / Total hours on type:

3763.00

Copilot / Total flying hours:

4755

Copilot / Total hours on type:

1109

Aircraft flight hours:

49865

Aircraft flight cycles:

45262

Circumstances:

Following an uneventful flight from Lima, the aircraft was descending to Pucallpa-Capitán David Abensur Rengifo Airport runway 02, an intermediate stop on the flight from Lima to Iquitos. As the crew approached the destination, weather conditions deteriorated with heavy rain falls, CB's and turbulences. On final approach, the aircraft was unstable and descended below the glide until it crashed in a swampy and wooded area located 3,5 km short of runway. The aircraft was destroyed by impact forces and a post crash fire. 58 people were injured, some seriously, while 40 other occupants including five crew members were killed, among them 34 Peruvian, three American, one Australian, one Colombian and one Spanish.

Probable cause:

The Commission determines the likely cause of the accident as follows:
- The decision of the flight crew to continue the final approach and landing at the airport of Pucallpa in severe weather (storm).
- The decision of the flight crew to descend unstabilized and not act to stop the steep descent to the ground at a descent rate of above 1500 feet per minute; what triggered the GPWS (Ground Proximity Warning System).
- The decision of the flight crew not avoid the storm, not choosing to conduct a landing on the other runway or divert to the nearest airport until weather conditions improved.
- The decision of the flight crew to penetrate the storm, it having been detected on weather radar aircraft approximately 190 miles in advance.
- The loss of the horizontal and vertical visibility of the flight crew while penetrating the core of the storm (severe hailstorm). Severe hail causes obscuration of the front windows of the aircraft and therefore the total loss of situational awareness.

Final Report:

Crash of a Cessna 404 Titan II near Huancayo: 3 killed

Date & Time: Oct 18, 1996 at 0909 LT

Type of aircraft:

Cessna 404 Titan

Operator:

Aerodat

Registration:

C-FYUQ

Flight Phase:

Geographical / Geophysical / Scientific

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Schedule:

Pucallpa - Cuzco

MSN:

404-0047

YOM:

1977

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The twin engine aircraft departed Pucallpa on a geophysical survey mission on behalf of a mining company. The fuel reserve gave an autonomy of 10 hours. About two hours and a half into the flight, ATC recorded a brief ELT signal and SAR operations were initiated. The burnt wreckage was found few hours later by the crew of a helicopter on the slope of a mountain. All three occupants were killed.

Crash of a Cessna 404 Titan II in Peru: 4 killed

Date & Time: May 10, 1996

Type of aircraft:

Cessna 404 Titan

Operator:

Aerodat

Registration:

C-FPVB

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Pucallpa – Cuzco

MSN:

404-0454

YOM:

1979

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Circumstances:

Crashed in unknown circumstances while on a flight from Pucallpa to Cuzco. No trace of the aircraft nor the four occupants was ever found. The passengers were Canadian citizens engaged for oil exploration.

Crash of a Casa 212 Aviocar 200 near Puerto Pizana: 5 killed

Date & Time: Aug 27, 1994

Type of aircraft:

Casa 212 Aviocar

Operator:

Registration:

N119CA

Flight Phase:

Survey / Patrol / Reconnaissance

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Schedule:

Santa Lucia - Pucallpa

MSN:

357

YOM:

1988

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While cruising in low visibility due to foggy conditions and rain falls, the aircraft struck the slope of a mountain located 16 km north of Puerto Pizana. All five occupants were killed.

Crash of a Beechcraft E90 King Air near Otuzco: 4 killed

Date & Time: Mar 18, 1993

Type of aircraft:

Beechcraft 90 King Air

Operator:

Aero Taxi Iquitos

Registration:

N102RB

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Schedule:

Pucallpa - Trujillo

MSN:

LW-19

YOM:

1972

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En route from Pucallpa to Trujillo, the pilot informed ATC he was encountering severe atmospheric turbulences. Shortly later, the aircraft went out of control and crashed in a mountainous area located near Otuzco, about 60 km northeast of Trujillo. All four occupants were killed.

Crash of a Piper PA-42-720 Cheyenne III in Pucallpa

Date & Time: Feb 8, 1993

Type of aircraft:

Piper PA-42 Cheyenne

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Registration:

OB-1234

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