ERA13WA319 · Diamond DA40-180
Diamond DA40-180 · Accident: controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT) en route
From Lib Mandi Metropolitan Airport (SPLX) to Capitán FAP Leonardo Alvariño Herr Airport (SPRM)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA13WA319
- 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
- 2 · 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
Diamond DA40-180
- Aircraft type
- Diamond DA40
- 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
- N293DS
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Lib Mandi Metropolitan Airport (SPLX), LimaTo Capitán FAP Leonardo Alvariño Herr Airport (SPRM), San Ramon
- 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
- Part 91: General Aviation
- 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
- En route · cruise
- 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 July 11, 2013, about 1610 universal coordinated time (UTC), a Diamond DA40-180, N293DS, registered to Aero Advantage Corporation and operated by a private individual, impacted mountainous terrain while en route to Capitán FAP Leonardo Alvariño Herr Airport (SPRM), San Ramon, Peru. Weather conditions are unknown and a visual flight rules flight plan was filed for the personal flight from Lib Mandy Metropolitano Airport (SPLX) Lima, Peru, to SPRM. The airplane was destroyed by impact and postcrash fire. The pilot and passenger were fatally injured. The flight originated from SPLX about 1540 UTC.
During flight, the pilot was not reporting any en route contact points. The wreckage was found burning in the Ticlio region at 14,500 feet mean 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: 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 ERA13WA319
- Event ID
- 20130712X21952
- Case number
- ERA13WA319
- 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: e029fc295eff23f240a9702419c5fc20650ade494db902fde8ddf1b9063e13fa; retrieved 2026-09-14T16:00:34.618Z.