Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 205
Douglas DC-6 · Structural failure
From Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU) to Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)
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
- 31 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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-6
- Aircraft type
- Douglas DC-6
- 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
- LV-ADS
- Operator
- Aerolíneas Argentinas
- Onboard fatalities
- 31
- Route
- From Silvio Pettirossi International Airport (ASU)To Ezeiza International Airport - Ministro Pistarini (EZE)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 205 (flight number: AR205) was a scheduled flight of the state-owned airline Aerolíneas Argentinas from Asunción in Paraguay to Buenos Aires. On 7 September 1960, 31 people on board a Douglas DC-6 died on this flight after the aircraft broke apart in flight as a result of a propeller separation. The aircraft then crashed near Salto in Uruguay.
Accident sequence
Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 205 ran from Asunción Airport in Paraguay to Buenos Aires-Ezeiza Airport in Argentina. When the aircraft was over Salto in Uruguayan airspace, the propeller of engine No. 3 suddenly broke off. It then collided with the propeller of engine No. 4, whereupon the aircraft broke apart in the air and crashed to the ground.
The aircraft crashed onto a field near Salto. All 31 people on board were killed in the accident.
Cause of the accident
The immediate cause of the accident was determined to be the overspeeding of the propeller on engine No. 3. This was said to have been caused by rough operation of the propeller governor. The indirect cause of the accident was insufficiently strict supervision of the maintenance work carried out on the engine. While the maintenance bulletins No. 1666 and 1680 of 5 November 1957 and 15 May 1958 published by Pratt and Whitney were not mandatory, the company should have taken into account the special conditions regarding the operating history of engine No. 3 of the aircraft LV-ADS.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Aerolíneas-Argentinas-Flug 205” (revision 248301714, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Aerolíneas-Argentinas-Flug 205
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 248301714 · 2024-09-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65226951
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Aerolíneas-Argentinas-Flug 205" (page 10771624, revision 248301714), translated into English with AI assistance
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.