1969 Silvio Pettirossi Airport collision
Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas Convair CV-240 family and Fairchild Aircraft Pilatus PC-6 Porter · Runway collision.
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
- 3 · 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
Aircraft 1 · Convair CV-240 family
- Aircraft type
- Convair CV-240
- 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
- ZP-CDN
- Operator
- Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Aircraft 2 · Pilatus PC-6 Porter
- Aircraft type
- Pilatus PC-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
- N356F
- Operator
- Fairchild Aircraft
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Not stated
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- Not stated
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
Cause areas
- Not determined › Not determined
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Asunción, the town of the airport where the Wikipedia article places the event. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 8 May 1969 a Fairchild Aircraft Pilatus PC-6 crashed into a Líneas Aéreas Paraguayas Convair 240 at Silvio Pettirossi International Airport. Killing 3 of the 4 people on board the PC-6.
Accident
The Pilatus PC-6 took off at 11:00 for a military show, but the aircraft veered off and collided with the parked LAP Convair 240, caught fire and struck the ground killing 3 of the 4 people on board; fortunately there were no passengers or crew there in the Convair 240.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation could not reveal the cause of the accident but it may be pilot error.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Colisión del Aeropuerto Silvio Pettirossi de 1969” (revision 175000212, 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: Colisión del Aeropuerto Silvio Pettirossi de 1969
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175000212 · 2026-08-24 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q141070301
- 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 "Colisión del Aeropuerto Silvio Pettirossi de 1969" (page 11574476, revision 175000212), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- centre of the town the Wikipedia infobox site names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- 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: total_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.