| Date: | Saturday 20 September 1980 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-35-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Unknown |
| Registration: | HI-197 |
| MSN: | 26716 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Peninsula de La Guajira -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Illegal Flight |
| Departure airport: | |
A Dominican Republic-registered C-46 transport plane crashed at night into the sea off the Guajira Peninsula. All six on board were rescued.
The airplane was apparently used on a drug trafficking flight.
Sources:
El Tiempo 22 September 1980, p3A
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; San Juan-Luis Munoz Marin International Airport, Puerto Rico (SJU); October 1978
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