1990 TAN Lockheed L-188 Electra accident
TAN Honduras Lockheed L-188 Electra · The 1990 TAN Lockheed L-188 Electra accident occurred on 21 March 1990
From Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (SAP) to Toncontín Airport (TGU)
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
- 3 · 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
Lockheed L-188 Electra
- Aircraft type
- Lockheed L-188
- 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
- HR-TNL
- Operator
- TAN Honduras
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Ramón Villeda Morales International Airport (SAP)To Toncontín Airport (TGU)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The 1990 TAN Lockheed L-188 Electra accident occurred on 21 March 1990. On that day, a TAN Honduras Lockheed L-188 Electra cargo aircraft on a domestic flight from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa was flown into the mountain Cerro de Hula, killing all three occupants. Five months earlier, on TAN Flight 414, a Boeing 727-200 of the airline had already been flown into the same mountain, killing 131 people.
Accident sequence
The approach to Tegucigalpa Airport by the aircraft, which had taken off in San Pedro Sula, was carried out in adverse weather conditions. The crew did not notice that they were flying the approach too low, when the aircraft struck the southern slope of the 1,600-metre-high mountain Cerro de Hula 14 kilometres short of the threshold of runway 01. The aircraft was completely destroyed in the impact; all three occupants were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Lockheed L-188 Electra der TAN 1990” (revision 251249778, 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: Flugunfall einer Lockheed L-188 Electra der TAN 1990
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 251249778 · 2024-12-14 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131341022
- 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 "Flugunfall einer Lockheed L-188 Electra der TAN 1990" (page 13292524, revision 251249778), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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 cargo Electra of the Honduran airline TAN on a domestic flight: an airline cargo flight. The article: "a TAN Honduras Lockheed L-188 Electra cargo aircraft on a domestic flight from San Pedro Sula to Tegucigalpa was flown into the mountain Cerro de Hula"
- 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.