Peruvian Airlines flight P9-331 suffered the collapse of both main gear struts during landing at El Alto International Airport, Bolivia, on November 22nd.
The incident happened when the Boeing 737-500 plane was coming from Cusco, Peru.
There were one hundred and twenty-two passengers and five crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained uninjured.
A Boliviana de Aviacion Boeing 737-300 plane burst left hand main tires after landing at El Alto International Airport, Bolivia, on November 1st.
The incident happened when the plane was preforming flight OB-669 from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia.
The plane became disabled on the runway. All one hundred and one passengers and six crew members remained unharmed.
BoA Boliviana de Aviacion flight OB-670 had to return and make an emergency landing at El Alto International Airport, La Paz, Bolivia, on September 22nd.
The Boeing 737-700 flying to Santa Cruz, Bolivia, had to return due to cabin pressurisation issue.
The plane landed safely.
All 138 passengers and 6 crew members remained safe.
Boliviana de Aviacion flight OB-314 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Cochabamba, Bolivia, on February 6th.
The plane flying from La Paz, Bolivia, was on approach to Uyuni, Bolivia, when the crew reported unsafe gear and decided to divert.
The plane landed safely. All 31 passengers and 3 crew members remained unharmed.
The airline arranged a replacement plane for the passengers.
Boliviana de Aviacion flight OB-442 made an emergency landing in La Paz, Bolivia, on August 18th.
The Boeing 737-300 aircraft had departed for Cochabamba, Bolivia, when the crew reported that cabin did not pressurize and decided to turn back.
The plane landed safely. Everyone aboard remained unhurt.
A Bolivian air force plane crashed in the suburbs of Santa Cruz city in Santa Cruz province of Bolivia on November 28.
Authorities said the plane was on a training flight with an instructor and a trainee pilot aboard.
It appears that the aircraft was attempting an emergency landing due to some mechanical fault when it crashed, just 30 minutes after departing from El Trompillo airfield.
Both people aboard the plane were killed in the crash.
The accident is under investigation.
A small military plane crashed in a Santa Cruz aerodrome in Bolivia, on October 15.
The Bolivia-made Tiluchi FAB-542 was rehearsing a landing maneuver for the anniversary of the Bolivian air force when it went down.
Authorities confirmed that 2 people aboard the aircraft, a colonel and a lieutenant, were killed in the accident.
The cause of crash is not clear at the moment.
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An Aerocon Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner en route from the Teniente Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport developed a problem as it caught fire upon landing at 4 p.m. at Riberalta Airport.
Three officials of the Governorate of Beni were aboard.
The Bolivian aircraft came to rest wheels up and was consumed by the fire.
Of the sixteen passengers and two crew, eight aboard sustained fatal injuries. The pilot and copilot survived but are in grave condition. Riberalta Hospital had previously reported eight dead and six wounded. The dead were significantly burned and will have to be identified through DNA.
The rainfall was heavy as the plane landed, and may have exacerbated the pilot’s difficulty.
Eight of the injured were taken to the hospital Riberalta while two took him to the clinic December 4. While the pilots were evacuated to the city of Guayaramerín and then transferred to Santa Cruz.
Weather about the time of the accident (16:00 LT / 20:00 Z):
SLRI 032100Z 19005KT 3000 -RA BKN004 FEW020CB OVC070 24/24 Q1009
SLRI 031900Z 15008KT 5000 VCSH BKN015 FEW020CB BKN200 28/23 Q1010
Injured
1.- Oscar Adrés Tacata Sossa
2.- Alejandra Azad Lazo
3.- Leslie Pérez Gil
4.- Zenón Peréz Ramírez
5.- Jenny Gutiérrez Farah
6.- Cecilia Tapia Salinas ( copiloto)
7.- Kevin Roca Alpire ( Piloto)
8.- Jorge Ernesto Morán Cruz
9.- Jackeline Ruiz Suárez
10.- Luis Alberto Suárez Velarde
Deceased
1.- Fernando Chacón
2.- Daniel Ishita Guarena
3.- Herlan Rodríguez
4.- Rober Suárez Vargas
5.- Shirley Ojopi Carrillo
6.- Maria Georgia Saucedo
7.- Rosio Álvarez Azad (menor de seis años)
8.- Rodrigo Molina Peñaloza
On Jan 21, 2013 a Cessna 206 Stationair in San Germán Bolivia crashed while making an illegal flight and came off the airstrip. A drug lord named Roly Delgado was injured in the accident. Delgado had entered Santa Cruz with a different name. He is considered a dangerous drug lords in the area of ??San Germán and Nuevo Horizonte.
He was detained by a narcotics officer.
What: Servicio Aereo Elorza Cessna U206G Stationair 6
Where: San Joaquin, Beni Bolivia
When: August 21, 2012
Who: 1 aboard, 2 fatalities, 1 injury
Why: The festival commemorating the 303rd anniversary of the founding of San Joaquin was cancelled.
A small stunt plane was performing at the event doing cartwheels when the the pilot crashed into a house. The pilot was killed along with a woman in the house. Another person on the ground was injured. Witnesses said Two planes were performing cartwheels when one of them made a turn. the plane’s right wing hit the fence of the cemetery, hit some trees and crashed into the roof of a residence.
Pilot Ramón Bilbao Mayuve (45) was killed in the crash. The woman who died, Karina Angelica Robles (23) was in her house when it was struck by the aircraft. Sixteen year old Reich Guardia Sosa was seriously injured and hospitalized in the capital.
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What: TAM Bolivia Xian MA-60 en route from Riberalta to Guayaramerin, Bolivia
Where: Guayaramerin
When: Jan 9th 2012
Who: 16 passengers, 5 crew
Why: On landing, the plane’s landing gear would not lower. Pilots had to perform a belly landing in Guayaramerin. (In May 2011, the same plane had had a prior belly landing.)
One of the SA-227’s in the Aerocon fleet.
CP-2548 is missing. (CP-2527 is pictured )
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Minor Vidal, the sole survivor was found in the Amazon jungle. Minor said “I did not eat anything, nothing, just drank my urine when I was thirsty. The first night I slept on the plane and two nights in the jungle. I did not understand why the plane was flying so low. Then there was a heavy blow. I do not remember more. When I awoke, I saw the airplane game, could not move. I stayed in my seat, I was in the back of the plane. The next day [Wednesday], I went and did my blood with an arrow on a shirt to get me. They were all dead. I walked day and night to be found by the patrol.”
Colombian Oscar Valencia, the William Lara Ecuador and Bolivian indigenous leader Eddy Martinez died in the crash.
What: Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner en route from Santa Cruz to Trinidad Bolivia
Where: Trinidad
When: Sep 6th 2011
Who: 7 passengers, 2 crew
Why: On final approach to Trinidad, the pilots lost contact with ATC.
The instrument approach to the airport requires overflying North and then turning back. (See the airport chart below.)
The last contact was reporting the flight was “in the procedure turn” but the flight did not land on the runway, and went missing in a mountainous area.
Rescuers reached the crash site in the afternoon of Sept 8 and confirmed that there were survivors.
The wreckage of the plane was located 30km north-east of the city of Trinidad, in the Amazon jungle province of Beni. Chacon reported on thursday that a helicopter crew had seen the plane “completely destroyed” in a difficult-to-reach jungle region.
Six bodies were recoverable immediately when the wreckage was found. Two bodies trapped in the wreckage required rescue teams and equipment.
One of the SA-227’s in the Aerocon fleet. CP-2548 is missing. (CP-2527 is pictured
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What: Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner en route from Santa Cruz to Trinidad Bolivia
Where: Trinidad
When: Sep 6th 2011
Who: 7 passengers, 2 crew
Why: On final approach to Trinidad, the pilots lost contact with ATC.
The instrument approach to the airport requires overflying North and then turning back.
The last contact was reporting the flight was “in the procedure turn” but the flight did not land on the runway, and is currently considered to be missing in a mountainous area.
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Contact photographer Mauricio Rocco Silva Sato
What: AeroSur Boeing 737-400 en route from Santa Cruz to La Paz Bolivia
Where: La Paz
When: Aug 10th 2011
Who: 147 passengers, 6 crew
Why: On landing in La Paz, the right main gear tire blew out.
Emergency services responded to the disabled plane stranded on the runway. Damage included a hydraulic leak. The plane was towed to the gate.
What: Fuerza Aérea Boliviana Cessna T210 Turbo Centurion en route from El Alto International Airport in La Paz
Where: Santa Elena River, Iquisiva Province, La Paz
When: May 5 2011
Who: 6 aboard
Why: The Bolivian Air Force plane piloted by the air force and carrying four United Nations workers was doing a fly-by and did not return at 2:30 as scheduled. The plane, which had been missing since May 5 and a search going on in Yungas (Coroico, La Asunta and Caranavi). The flight was located near the Santa Elena River, where it appears that it hit a tree during an emergency landing.
The passengers lost in the crash were Ivan Alfaro Santiago, Estephan Campos Ruiz, Mariela Romero Torreblanco and Patricia Delgado Rua, and the Cessna was being flown by Lt. Néstor Álvaro Ottich Arenas and Lt. José Javier Alegría Estrada.
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What: AM Transporte Aereo Militar Xian MA-60 en route from La Paz to Rurrenabaque
Where: Rurrenabaque Bolivia
When: Mar 18th 2011
Who: 33 aboard
Why: On landing at Rurrenabaque the landing gear failed to deploy. The flight performed a belly landing with no injuries reported. Minor damage on the plane. The gear problem may have been due to a hydraulic leak but the circumstances are under investigation.
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Contact photographer Robert Domandl
What: AeroHorizontes Escuela de Vuelo Cessna 150G
Where: Maica Area Chica, behind Jorge Wilstermann Airport, Cochabamba Bolivia
When: August 27 2010
Who: Two fatalities: pilot/instructor José Gonzalo Grosveger Zegarra and passenger/student José Ignacio Guzmán
Why: During this instruction flight, the student was practicing “touch and go” maneuvers when the plane crashed. The school’s operations could be suspended pending investigation.
Pictured: A S.A. North American NA-265 Sabreliner 40A Jet in La Paz
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Contact photographer Alan Lebeda
What: Bolivian owned Sabreliner en route from La Paz to the southern city of Sucre
Where: Jorge Wilstermann International Airport of Cochabamba
When: Dec 23. 2009
Who: Bolivian President Evo Moarales
Why: The plane made an unscheduled landing in Cochabamba in central Bolivia due to a failure in the hydraulics system. The 30 year old plane is planned to be replaced in 2011 by a $30 million dollar Russian Antonov BJ.
Reliable older planes…you just can not skimp on maintenance.
What: Bolivian Air Force (FAB) LAMA FAB-746
Where: Molle Molle at 1520 on Thursday
When: Thursday Oct 1
Who: Four officers killed; one wounded
Why: The helicopter crashed into a wall in the village of Molle Molle. The survivor Yanarico Sergeant Johnson (24) is in critical condition at Viedma Hospital.
Victims: Lt. Col. Wilson Arnez Gonzales (46), the Edgar Antezana Victor Paz (38), officer Javier Rodriguez (48), Sergeant Juan Carlos Iza Arnostegui Colonel Lopez (34) (Venezuelan driver)
Pictured: A Cessna 172A
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Contact photographer Giovanni Francisco Rodriguez Bravo
What: Bolivian Cessna 172 RG
Where: “Agropecuaria Arco Iris” airstrip, north of Montero, Santa Cruz, Bolivia
When: May 11, 2008
Who: 5 fatalities
Why: While en route, the plane impacted a tree with its left’s wing and then the ground, where a fire ensued. The accident site was about 1,150 meters from an unlit runway of “Agropecuaria Arco Iris” airstrip, north of Montero, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. The pilot and the four passengers received fatal injuries; the airplane was destroyed. The flight originated from El Tromprillo Airport, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, at about 1808.
