Douglas DC-6 crash in Puerto Montt
Chilean Air Force Douglas DC-6 · Controlled flight into terrain
From President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (PUQ) to El Tepual International Airport (PMC)
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
- 38 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 44
- 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
- 30
- 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
- Military
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
- 989
- Operator
- Chilean Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 38
- Route
- From President Carlos Ibáñez International Airport (PUQ)To El Tepual International Airport (PMC)
Approximate · Estimated position: Puerto Montt, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 24 July 1977. A Douglas DC-6B aircraft belonging to the Chilean Air Force crashed in a swamp in Puerto Montt, Chile; 38 of the 82 people died.
Accident
When the aircraft took off from Presidente Carlos Ibáñez del Campo airport in Punta Arenas with 75 passengers and 7 crew members on board. Despite very adverse weather conditions, the pilots decided to attempt to land at the destination airport of Tepual in Puerto Montt. The machine crashed in a swamp and burst into flames. 38 of the 82 people died. This is the third deadliest air disaster in the history of Chile.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Douglas DC-6 en Puerto Montt” (revision 175407590, 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 Douglas DC-6 en Puerto Montt
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175407590 · 2026-09-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q11737234
- 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 Douglas DC-6 en Puerto Montt" (page 11558700, revision 175407590), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- operator named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
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.