Colombian Air Force Flight 1261
CASA CN-235 · Engine failure
From Germán Olano Air Base, Palanquero to Alfonso López Pumarejo Airport, Valledupar
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
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
CASA CN-235
- Aircraft type
- Casa CN-235
- 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
- C-118
- Operator
- Colombian Air Force
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Germán Olano Air Base, PalanqueroTo Alfonso López Pumarejo Airport, Valledupar
Approximate · Estimated position: Agustín Codazzi, Cesar, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Colombian Air Force Flight 1261 was a tragic accident that occurred on 31 July 2015, involving a Colombian military aircraft, causing the deaths of 11 military personnel. The aircraft, a CASA CN-235 of the Colombian Air Force, took off at 16h on 31 July from Palanquero Air Base, bound for Valledupar with 11 Colombian military personnel on board. After a good period of flight, the pilot reported an engine failure on the aircraft, after which the Colombian authorities lost the aircraft's signal while it was flying over the Las Palomas area, near the town of Agustín Codazzi, 780 km from Bogotá. All 11 military personnel on board died. Weather conditions at the time of the accident were not favourable.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Voo Força Aérea Colombiana 1261” (revision 58570701, 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
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Voo Força Aérea Colombiana 1261
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 58570701 · 2020-06-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q25419594
- 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
- pt Wikipedia article "Voo Força Aérea Colombiana 1261" (page 4832168, revision 58570701), 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 named as an armed force or military unit in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Portuguese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.