1976 Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident
Douglas DC-4 · Controlled flight into terrain
From El Dorado International Airport (BOG) to La Macarena Airport (LMC)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 13
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Charter & commuter
Douglas DC-4
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-4
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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
- HK-127
- Operator
- Taxi Aereo el Venado
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From El Dorado International Airport (BOG)To La Macarena Airport (LMC)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 15 January 1976, a Taxi Aereo el Venado DC-4 crashed into a mountain 50 km from Bogotá killing all the thirteen people on board.
Accident
The aircraft was on a domestic charter flight from Bogotá-El Dorado Airport to La Macarena Airport, with three crew and ten passengers. The aircraft took off at 11:37, and the pilot reported his departure and said he would call at the next reporting point over El Boqueron. Nothing else was heard from the aircraft despite attempts by Air Traffic Control to contact them. Three hours later, the local authorities in Chipaque reported that an aircraft had hit one of the peaks of the Western Cordillera at a height of 3540 m. The mountain had been hidden by clouds.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1976 Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident
- Revision
- 1347985786 · 2026-04-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q29017929
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "1976 Taxi Aereo el Venado Douglas DC-4 accident" (page 53282814, revision 1347985786)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A Taxi Aereo el Venado aircraft on a domestic passenger charter: an air taxi charter flight. The article: "The aircraft was on a domestic charter flight from Bogotá-El Dorado Airport to La Macarena Airport, with three crew and ten passengers."
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.