Aero Transporte Sociedad Anonima ATSA Beech B200 accident
Beech B200 · Accident: controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT) while maneuvering
From Jorge Chávez International Airport (SPIM) to Pias Airport (SPIS)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA13WA158
- 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
- Final · CIAA final report
- API-reported fatalities
- 9 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Beech B200
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 200
- 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-1992
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Jorge Chávez International Airport (SPIM), LimaTo Pias Airport (SPIS), La Libertad
- 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., 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
- Destroyed
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 March 6, 2013, about 1245 UTC, a Beech B200, OB-1992, registered to Dearborn and Flint Aviation Co, Inc., operated by Aero Transporte Sociedad Anonima ATSA, collided with a wire then terrain during visual approach to Aerodrome Pias (SPIS), La Libertad, Peru. Weather conditions are unknown in the area and time of the accident, and a visual flight rules (VFR) flight plan was filed for the foreign charter flight from Jorge Chavez International Airport (SPIM), Lima, Peru, to SPIS. The airplane was destroyed by impact and a postcrash fire and the pilot, co-pilot, and seven passengers were fatally injured. The flight originated from SPIM about 1130 UTC.
After departure the flight proceeded to the destination airport and due to adverse weather, the flightcrew flew over the destination airport, but did not land. The Peru investigator-in-charge reported that the airplane collided with wires then crashed in mountainous terrain at about 6,850 feet mean sea level(msl).
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: 511.315.7800
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 ERA13WA158
- Event ID
- 20130307X72035
- Case number
- ERA13WA158
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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: 3bf9f8973b7db0ba81d01ee011c9654291a6b77daf364cae9c3bd82f98266dd0; retrieved 2026-09-14T15:54:04.847Z.
- Checked against the Comisión de Investigación de Accidentes de Aviación (CIAA), Ministerio de Transportes y Comunicaciones, Peru final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, operator, departure, destination and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: registration (shown OB-1992; report OB-1992-P). Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.