Alas Flight 4892
Cessna 206 · Mechanical failure
From Bucaramanga, Colombia to Málaga, Colombia
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA15WA082
- 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
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Final · Unidad Administrativa Especial de… final report
- Event fatalities
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- 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
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Unknown
Cessna 206
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 206
- Category
- Airplane
- 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-4892
- Operator
- Alas
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Bucaramanga, ColombiaTo Málaga, Colombia
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- En route · cruise
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Miscellaneous/other
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
Alas Flight 4892 took place when a commercial light aircraft carrying six passengers and the pilot crashed near the municipality of Piedecuesta, located in the department of Santander (Colombia), on 24 December 2014. No occupant survived.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 4892 de Alas” (revision 174561419, 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
NTSB narrative
On December 24, 2014, about 1950 UTC, a Cessna T207A, HK4892, collided with mountainous terrain near Vereda Cabreras, Punto el Guanabanazo, Pescadero Piedecuesta, Santander, Colombia. The commercial pilot and six passengers were fatally injured. The airplane was destroyed by impact forces, and was registered to and operated by Aerolineas Alas De Colombia LTDA, on a non-scheduled, domestic, passenger flight. Weather conditions at the accident site were not reported, although visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time at the departure airport. The flight originated about 1939 UTC, from Palonegro International Airport (SKBG), Lebrija, Santander, Colombia, and was destined for Malaga Airport (SKLA), Malaga, Santander, Colombia.
After takeoff the flight proceeded according to the VFR flight plan towards the destination airport which is located approximately 36 nautical miles and 133 degrees from the departure airport. The airplane did not arrive at its intended destination, and search and rescue operations were performed. The airplane impacted mountainous terrain; there was no postcrash fire.
This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Colombia. Any further information can be obtained from:
Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronautica Civil Aeropuerto Internacional El Dorado Bogota, Colombia Telephone: 571.425.1000
This report is for informational purposes only, and contains information released by or obtained for the Government of Colombia.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Vuelo 4892 de Alas
- Article
- Vuelo 4892 de Alas
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174561419 · 2026-07-27 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q18674871
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA15WA082
- Event ID
- 20141227X82857
- Case number
- ERA15WA082
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 4892 de Alas" (page 6550117, revision 174561419), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA15WA082 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date; matches the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil (Aerocivil), Grupo de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (GRIAA), Colombia final report
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record ERA15WA082: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record ERA15WA082
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities; matches the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil (Aerocivil), Grupo de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (GRIAA), Colombia final report
- Ground fatalities
- Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil (Aerocivil), Grupo de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (GRIAA), Colombia final report
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Alas Flight 4892" and NTSB case ERA15WA082, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- Checked against the Unidad Administrativa Especial de Aeronáutica Civil (Aerocivil), Grupo de Investigación de Accidentes e Incidentes de Aviación (GRIAA), Colombia final report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, fatalities, registration, operator, departure, destination and damage. Taken from the report: ground fatalities. Not checked: place, crash-site coordinates, flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.