Pacífica de Aviación Cessna 402 crash
Cessna 402 · Possibly speed exceeded during flight and collision with the mountain
From Juradó, Chocó, Colombia to Olaya Herrera Airport, Medellín, Colombia
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA25WA053
- 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
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Preliminary · DIACC preliminary report
- Event fatalities
- 10 · 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
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 402
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 402
- Category
- Airplane
- 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 2522
- Operator
- Pacífica de Aviación
- Onboard fatalities
- 10
- Route
- From Juradó, Chocó, ColombiaTo Olaya Herrera Airport, Medellín, Colombia
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Controlled flight into terrain/object (CFIT)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The Cessna 402 crash was an aviation accident that took place at 17:30 on 8 January 2025. The crashed aircraft, a Cessna 402 belonging to the company Pacífica de Aviación, had taken off from the town of Juradó, Chocó. Its destination was Olaya Herrera Airport, located in Medellín, operating a passenger transport flight.
Crash
The event occurred when the aircraft exceeded the maximum permitted speed during the flight and crashed into Cerro El Burro, in the rural area of Urrao, a few minutes before landing at Medellín airport. Eight people died in the accident: six passengers, including three minors, as well as the pilot and co-pilot of the operating company. Aerocivil confirmed the crash, and on 10 January the wreckage of the aircraft and the bodies of its occupants were found by the Colombian Air Force and the Technical Investigation Corps, the entity that had initially reported the disappearance of the light aircraft at the time of the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Cessna 402 de Pacífica de Aviación” (revision 167856882, 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
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente del Cessna 402 de Pacífica de Aviación
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 167856882 · 2025-06-08 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q131757025
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA25WA053
- Event ID
- 20250110199525
- Case number
- GAA25WA053
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Cessna 402 de Pacífica de Aviación" (page 11095536, revision 167856882), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA25WA053 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Dirección Técnica de Investigación de Accidentes (DIACC), Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia preliminary report
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA25WA053: events decimal coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA25WA053
- Operation
- Dirección Técnica de Investigación de Accidentes (DIACC), Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia preliminary report
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Dirección Técnica de Investigación de Accidentes (DIACC), Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia preliminary report
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Pacífica de Aviación Cessna 402 crash" and NTSB case GAA25WA053, matched by the same aircraft maker and place and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- Checked against the Dirección Técnica de Investigación de Accidentes (DIACC), Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia preliminary report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration, departure, destination and damage. Taken from the report: type of operation. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type, operator and ground fatalities.