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Sebastion Kamal Alfaro Gary Servicios Aereos Integ Piper PA31T accident

7 May 2025 · La Palma, Chile

Piper PA31T · Accident: controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT) en route

From Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCEL) to Chacalluta International Airport (SCAR)

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Event

NTSB case
GAA25WA154
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
Preliminary · DGAC interim report 
API-reported fatalities
6 · 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

Piper PA31T

Aircraft type
Piper PA31
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
CC-CCC
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport (SCEL), SantiagoTo Chacalluta International Airport (SCAR), Arica
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 · 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 from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

Investigated by the authorities of Chile; the NTSB took part and publishes no narrative.

Sources

NTSB record GAA25WA154
Event ID
20250508200133
Case number
GAA25WA154
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: b0dc703042a022e129c0252303abcc50cbdd15cb333a5d1bfca34631063c28f2; retrieved 2026-09-15T09:04:47.324Z.
  • Checked against the Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil (DGAC) Chile, Departamento Prevención de Accidentes interim report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities, departure and destination. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type, registration, operator and type of operation.