2025 Beni Cessna 172 crash
Private Cessna 172 · Aviation accident
From Baures Airport (BVL) to Teniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport (TDD)
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
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 5
- 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
- General aviation
Cessna 172
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 172
- 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-1099
- Operator
- Private
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Baures Airport (BVL)To Teniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport (TDD)
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
On 30 April 2025, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk, registration CP-1099, crashed near the Itonomas River while covering the route from Baures Airport in Baures and Teniente Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport in Trinidad, Beni, Bolivia. The five occupants on board were rescued alive 48 hours after the accident.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Directorate General of Civil Aeronautics (DGAC) launched a technical investigation to determine the causes of the emergency landing of the Cessna 172 aircraft, registration CP-1099, which occurred on Wednesday 30 April in a swampy area of Beni.
“Within the framework of Bolivian Aeronautical Regulation RAB 830, the Accident and Incident Investigation and Prevention Unit (AIG) has already begun the investigation process to identify the probable causes of the event”, states part of the communiqué.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Cessna 172 en Beni de 2025” (revision 173862437, 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 172 en Beni de 2025
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 173862437 · 2026-06-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q134304736
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente del Cessna 172 en Beni de 2025" (page 11191251, revision 173862437), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- operator given as a private owner in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.