ERA16RA021 · Beech 60
Beech 60 · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb
From El Dorado International Airport (SKBO) to Guaymaral Airport (SKGY)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA16RA021
- 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
- 10 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 6
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Beech 60
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft 60
- 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
- HK3917G
- Operator
- Jorge Alberto Hernandez
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From El Dorado International Airport (SKBO), BogotaTo Guaymaral Airport (SKGY), Bogota
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Loss of control in flight
- 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 from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On October 18, 2015 at 2119 UTC, a Beechcraft B60, Colombian registration HK3917G, registered to and operated by Sky Hub Aviation, was destroyed during a collision with a building in Barrio El Lujan, Bogota, Colombia. The pilot, three passengers, and six people in the building were fatally injured. Eight people in the building received serious injuries. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time of the accident.
The airplane departed Eldorado Airport (SKBO) at 2117 UTC, destined for Guaymaral Airport (SKGY) located about 8 miles northeast of SKBO. Immediately after takeoff the airplane leveled at an altitude of about 300 feet above ground level, and continued straight ahead. About 1 mile beyond the departure end of the runway, the airplane turned sharply to the left, descended, and impacted a 3-story building.
According to preliminary information from the Government of Colombia, the left engine experienced a loss of power prior to impact.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Colombia. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Grupo Investigación de Accidentes Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil Av. Eldorado 103-23 Bogota, Colombia
Telephone: (57-1) 296-2138 (57-1) 296-2013
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained for the Government of Colombia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA16RA021
- Event ID
- 20151020X73414
- Case number
- ERA16RA021
- 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 6f58dbf86fd44744803f304868b10f24923366e46d0f7f4b0865dbbe31b9e433; retrieved 2026-09-13T17:58:18.828Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: damage. The narrative states the airplane "was destroyed during a collision with a building".