1975 LADE Fokker 27 crash
Fokker F27 Friendship · Controlled flight into terrain
From El Palomar Airport (EPA) to Teniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)
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
- 52 · 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
- 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
Fokker F27 Friendship
- Aircraft type
- Fokker F27
- 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
- TC-72
- Operator
- Lade
- Onboard fatalities
- 52
- Route
- From El Palomar Airport (EPA)To Teniente Luis Candelaria International Airport (BRC)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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 16 March 1975 a Fokker F27-400M taking off from El Palomar to Rio Negro crashed into a mountain 35 km from Teniente Luis Candelaria International Airport. All 52 people on board died. The accident is an example of controlled flight into terrain.
Accident
The aircraft was to cover the Buenos Aires - Rio Negro route for a rescue flight due to the constant flooding.The takeoff and climb occurred without problems, during the descent there was bad weather and the pilot began to descend the aircraft until it struck a mountain in Neuquén. Killing the 52 people on board.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The accident is believed to have been the result of controlled flight into terrain after the crew began the descent prematurely because of a lack of sufficient ground assistance and also because of the bad weather.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del Fokker 27 de LADE en 1975” (revision 174607161, 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 Fokker 27 de LADE en 1975
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174607161 · 2026-07-29 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q140762376
- 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 Fokker 27 de LADE en 1975" (page 11562488, revision 174607161), 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
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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.