1984 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano F-27 crash
Fairchild F-27 · Controlled flight into terrain
From Capitán Av. German Quiroga G. Airport (SRJ) 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
- 23 · 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
Fairchild F-27
- Aircraft type
- Fairchild F-27
- 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-862
- Operator
- Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano
- Onboard fatalities
- 23
- Route
- From Capitán Av. German Quiroga G. Airport (SRJ)To Teniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport (TDD)
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Task performance
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: San Borja Municipality, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 16 March 1984, a Fairchild F-27 of Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano took off from San Borja bound for Trinidad and crashed into the slope of Mount Pilón, some 80 km southwest of San Borja, killing the 23 people on board.
Accident
The aircraft took off from Capitán Germán Quiroga Guardia Airport bound for Teniente Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport, but at a height of about 3000 m the aircraft crashed in a jungle area on the slope of Mount Pilón, causing the deaths of everyone on board.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigation revealed that the cause of the accident was Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error caused by the bad weather.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente del F-27 de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1984” (revision 175218563, 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 F-27 de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1984
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175218563 · 2026-09-06 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q141197131
- 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 F-27 de Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano en 1984" (page 11585206, revision 175218563), 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 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.