1960 Cochabamba Douglas DC-4 crash
Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano Douglas DC-4 · Crashed shortly after take-off
From Jorge Wilsterman International Airport (CBB) to El Alto International Airport (LPB)
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
- 59 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 59
- 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
- Airline
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
- CP-609
- Operator
- Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano
- Onboard fatalities
- 59
- Route
- From Jorge Wilsterman International Airport (CBB)To El Alto International Airport (LPB)
Approximate · Estimated position: Cochabamba, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 5 February 1960, a Douglas DC-4 passenger aircraft of Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano on a domestic flight from Cochabamba to La Paz, Bolivia, crashed shortly after take-off. All 59 people on board were killed.
Incident
Five minutes after taking off from Cochabamba's Jorge Wilstermann Airport, one of the plane's four engines reportedly caught fire. The aircraft subsequently crashed into a lagoon in the Andes, some 20 miles from the city of Cochabamba. It was the worst aviation accident in Bolivia's history at the time.
The pilot, 30-year-old Joaquin Lobos, was one of the airline's most experienced aviators, especially over the mountains of Bolivia.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: 1960 Cochabamba Douglas DC-4 crash
- Revision
- 1347815803 · 2026-04-09 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q124309369
- 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 "1960 Cochabamba Douglas DC-4 crash" (page 75362327, revision 1347815803)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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.