TAME Ecuador Lockheed L-188 Electra accident at Lago Agrio Airport
Lockheed L-188 Electra · The TAME Ecuador Lockheed L-188 Electra accident at Lago Agrio Airport occurred on 12 September 1988
From Lago Agrio Airport, Ecuador to Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)
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
- 7 · 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
- HC-AZY
- Operator
- TAME Ecuador
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Lago Agrio Airport, EcuadorTo Mariscal Sucre International Airport (UIO)
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 TAME Ecuador Lockheed L-188 Electra accident at Lago Agrio Airport occurred on 12 September 1988. On that day, a TAME Ecuador Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft on a ferry flight from Lago Agrio to Quito crashed at the departure airport, killing all seven occupants.
Accident sequence
The aircraft was scheduled that day for a ferry flight to the company's headquarters in Quito, because engine No. 2 (left inner) was defective. The takeoff was therefore carried out with only three operating engines. Shortly after liftoff, engine No. 1 (left outer) exploded and caught fire. The pilots lost control of the aircraft, which rolled to the left, crashed to the ground and caught fire. All seven occupants of the aircraft were killed.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Lockheed L-188 Electra der TAME Ecuador am Flughafen Lago Agrio” (revision 269160853, 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 TAME Ecuador am Flughafen Lago Agrio
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 269160853 · 2026-07-28 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131341023
- 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 TAME Ecuador am Flughafen Lago Agrio" (page 13295441, revision 269160853), 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 TAME Electra being ferried to the company's Quito headquarters with a defective engine: an airline's own ferry flight. The article: "a TAME Ecuador Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft on a ferry flight from Lago Agrio to Quito"
- 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.