Llanera de Aviacion Cessna 208 B accident
Cessna 208 B · Accident en route
From Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (SKMD) to Juradó Airport (SKJU)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA16WA332
- 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
- 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
- Unknown
Cessna 208 B
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- 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
- HK3804
- Operator
- Llanera de Aviacion
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Enrique Olaya Herrera Airport (SKMD), MedellinTo Juradó Airport (SKJU), Jurado
- 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
- En route
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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 September 30, 2016, about 1705 coordinated universal time, a Cessna 208B, Colombian registration HK3804, was substantially damaged when it impacted high terrain near San Antonio De Prado, Colombia. One of the Colombian certificated pilots and three of the passengers were fatally injured. The other pilot and five passengers were seriously injured, and one passenger was uninjured. The flight departed Medellin (SKMD), Colombia, about 1655, and was destined for Juradó (SKJU), Colombia.The accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Investigación de Accidentes Aéreos Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Investigación de Accidentes Aéreos Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia GRIAA - Aircraft Accident Investigation Group Civil Aviation Authority - Colombia CAA Av. Eldorado No. 103 – 23, OFC 202 CEA http://www.aerocivil.gov.co
Telephone (+57) 1 2962013
This report is for informational purposes and contains only information released by the Government of Colombia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ERA16WA332
- Event ID
- 20161003X52014
- Case number
- ERA16WA332
- 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: ee41e87ca94e395735464e0d44b0b9c14ef5db8317433db4cd08d230a09f4152; retrieved 2026-09-14T22:00:55.705Z.