SATENA Flight 9634
Embraer ERJ family · Aviation accident
From Vanguardia Airport (VVC) to Fabio Alberto Leon Bentley Airport (MVP)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA057
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 0 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 42
- 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
- 42
- 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
- Not recorded
Embraer ERJ family
- Aircraft type
- Embraer ERJ FAMILY
- 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-4536
- Operator
- Satena
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From Vanguardia Airport (VVC)To Fabio Alberto Leon Bentley Airport (MVP)
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Mitú, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
SATENA flight 9634 was a domestic passenger flight that on 5 May 2010 suffered substantial damage in a runway excursion accident at Fabio Alberto León Bentley Airport in Mitú, Colombia. There were no fatalities and there was no fire, but all 37 passengers and the 5 crew members suffered minor injuries.
The flight had departed from La Vanguardia Airport in Villavicencio on a domestic flight to Mitú. The aircraft could not stop when it landed on runway 20 of that city's airport.
Accident
During the landing roll the crew noticed that the right thrust reverser did not engage: they re-engaged it without obtaining satisfactory results. Both applied the brakes, but the aircraft left the paved surface of the runway at the 20 end, falling into a 4-metre-deep hollow and ending its travel 167 metres from it. The aircraft suffered significant damage to the fuselage, wings and landing gear. The passengers evacuated the aircraft by their own means. There were no serious injuries as a result of the accident or during the evacuation. There was no fire.
Investigation and cause
Investigation and causes
The Investigation Board found that the probable cause of the accident was the execution of a landing on runway 20 at Mitú, following a destabilised approach, especially with respect to height and speed deviations when crossing the runway threshold, and the sounding of the EGPWS alarm, which caused the aircraft to overrun the available runway. In addition, the crew used faulty techniques for landing on short, wet runways. Contributing to the accident were the lack of planning to carry out and complete the published instrument approach procedure for runway 20 and the deviation from the company's standard operating procedures.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 9634 de SATENA” (revision 174450270, 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 May 5, 2010, an EMB-145, Colombian registration HK-4536, operated by Satena airlines overran the landing runway at Mitu, Colombia. There were no injuries among the 4 crew and 37 passengers. The airplane was equipped with Rolls Royce-US engines. The incident is being investigated by the Aeronáutica Civil de Colombia (http://portal.aerocivil.gov.co) who has requested NTSB assistance with avionics memory readout.
Verbatim NTSB analysis from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Vuelo 9634 de SATENA
- Article
- Vuelo 9634 de SATENA
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 174450270 · 2026-07-19 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q106890972
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA10WA057
- Event ID
- 20100511X03836
- Case number
- DCA10WA057
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 9634 de SATENA" (page 9907147, revision 174450270), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case DCA10WA057 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- NTSB record DCA10WA057: centre of the town the record names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- 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 DCA10WA057
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "SATENA Flight 9634" and NTSB case DCA10WA057, 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.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.