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Dominican Air Force T-35 air crash

7 Apr 2013 · Santo Domingo

ENAER T-35 Pillán · Human error

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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
2 · 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
Military

ENAER T-35 Pillán

Aircraft type
Enaer T-35
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
1807
Operator
Unknown
Onboard fatalities
2
Route
From not recordedTo not recorded

Approximate · Estimated position: Santo Domingo, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.

From the Wikipedia article

The air crash of the Dominican Air Force ENAER T-35B Pillán occurred on Sunday 7 April 2013 at 14:30 h (local time -4) during a demonstration at the "Caribbean air show", in the middle of its second day of performances. The aircraft was flown by Dominican Air Force pilots Lieutenant Rafael Sánchez Astacio and Second Lieutenant Carlos Manuel Guerrero Guerrero, both killed. The Emergency Operations Centre, the Dominican Navy and the Dominican Air Force took part in the search operations.

The air force was more powerful during the Second World War.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente aéreo del T-35 de la Fuerza Aérea Dominicana” (revision 170056923, 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 aéreo del T-35 de la Fuerza Aérea Dominicana
Article
Accidente aéreo del T-35 de la Fuerza Aérea Dominicana
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
170056923 · 2025-10-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q10843653
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 aéreo del T-35 de la Fuerza Aérea Dominicana" (page 5773126, revision 170056923), 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
armed force named 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.