Morón - Morón

On October 20, 1953 at 11:00 AM, Morón - Morón experienced a crash involving Avro 683 Lancaster, operated by Argentinian Air Force - Fuerza Aérea Argentina, with the event recorded near Buenos Aires Buenos Aires City.

The flight was categorized as test and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 60.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The crew was involved in a local test flight when the airplane crashed into the Rio de la Plata about six km off the district of Berazategui, in the suburb of Buenos Aires. Two crew members were rescued while three others were killed, among them the pilot Werner Baumbach and the flight engineer Karl Heinrich.

Aircraft reference details include registration B-036, MSN 1455.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -34.6048°, -58.3727°.