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1984 Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano F-27 crash

16 Mar 1984 · Mount Pilón, San Borja, Beni Department

Fairchild F-27 · Controlled flight into terrain

From Capitán Av. German Quiroga G. Airport (SRJ) to Teniente Av. Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport (TDD)

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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
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
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.