| Date: | Friday 21 July 1972 |
| Time: | 12:25 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-53 (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Acme Leasing |
| Registration: | N39393 |
| MSN: | 4943 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Pivijay -
 Colombia
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Panama City-Tocumen International Airport (PTY/MPTO) |
| Aruba-Reina Beatrix Airport (AUA/TNCA) |
A smell of burning in the cabin made the crew perform a precautionary landing at Pivijay. The aircraft landed long on the 850 m runway and started to swerve. During the subsequent overshoot the DC-3 struck a fence and ended up in a depression 200 m past the runway end.
PROBABLE CAUSE: Inadequate flight planning.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
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