Taxi Aéreo el Venado Flight 235
Taxi Aereo el Venado Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante · Loss of control of the aircraft due to excess weight
From Juan Jose Rondon Airport (RON) to Rafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)
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
- 20 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 1
- 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
Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante
- Aircraft type
- Embraer EMB-110
- 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
- HK-2651
- Operator
- Taxi Aéreo el Venado
- Onboard fatalities
- 20
- Route
- From Juan Jose Rondon Airport (RON)To Rafael Nuñez International Airport (CTG)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
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 2 September 1981, an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante of Taxi Aéreo el Venado, operating from Boyacá to Bolívar, crashed shortly after takeoff from Juan José Rondón Airport. 20 of the 21 occupants on board died.
Accident
The aircraft took off from Juan José Rondón Airport at 09:55 am; on taking off, the aircraft encountered serious difficulties gaining height. It passed close over some trees and several houses at a distance of three kilometres, then the pilot in command turned left when the aircraft's wingtip struck the ground, causing the aircraft to crash and catch fire. At that moment 16 of the 21 people died in the accident but four survivors died the following day from their injuries.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation determined that the total weight of the aircraft was 6,491 kilos at takeoff, some 821 kilos above the maximum takeoff weight. That demonstrated the negligence and carelessness in the operation, in breach of the aircraft's Operating Manual.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 235 de Taxi Aéreo el Venado” (revision 175234892, 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: Vuelo 235 de Taxi Aéreo el Venado
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175234892 · 2026-09-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q141178661
- 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 "Vuelo 235 de Taxi Aéreo el Venado" (page 11583376, revision 175234892), 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
- flight number in the article title
- 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.