ERA12WA103 · Cessna TU206 G
Palmas del Espino Cessna TU206 G · Accident: controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT) while maneuvering
From San Martin to Cadete FAP Guillermo Del Castillo Paredes Airport (SPST)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA12WA103
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna TU206 G
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- OB-1299
- Operator
- Palmas del Espino
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From San MartinTo Cadete FAP Guillermo Del Castillo Paredes Airport (SPST), San Martin
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Maneuvering
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 1, 2011, about 2048 UTC, a Cessna TU206G, Peruvian registration OB-1299, registered to and operated by Palmas del Espino S.A., collided with mountainous terrain near Cerro Escalera, Peru. Weather conditions at the altitude, location, and time of the occurrence are unknown, and a visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan was filed for the foreign, non commercial passenger flight from Shanusi Airport, San Martin, Peru, to Aeropuerto Guillermo del Castillo Paredes Airport (SPST), San Martin, Peru. The airplane sustained substantial damage and the certificated commercial Peruvian pilot and three passengers were killed. The flight originated about 2030 UTC from Shanusi Airport.
After reporting to the control tower while flying over Cerro Escalera, the pilot was told to orbit to the west. Radio contact was lost immediately afterwards. The airplane impacted mountainous terrain about 4,250 feet above sea level on the west side of Cerro Escalera which has an elevation about 4,500 feet above sea level.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Peru. Any further information can be obtained from:
Comision de Investigacion de Accidentes de Aviacion (CIAA) Avenida Jiron Zorritos 1203 Lima 1 Peru Central: 6157800 Telephone: 51-1-6157488 Facsimile: 51-1-6157800 Anx 3030
This report is for informational purposes only, and contains information released by or obtained for the Government of Peru.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA12WA103
- Event ID
- 20111207X32002
- Case number
- ERA12WA103
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 86d4381a7e4a507120280a8952a939af0df162f95201dfcee05e84ceac2ecfc9; retrieved 2026-09-13T22:02:58.717Z.