Lima – Huánuco – Las Palmas

On December 8, 1967 at 12:00 PM, Lima – Huánuco – Las Palmas experienced a crash involving Douglas C-54 Skymaster, operated by Faucett, with the event recorded near Huánuco Huánuco.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

67 people were known to be on board, 67 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 6, crew fatalities: 6, passengers on board: 61, passenger fatalities: 61, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Few minutes after takeoff from Huánuco-Alferez David Figueroa Fernandini Airport, while climbing to an altitude of 10,000 feet, the airplane struck the slope of a mountain located in the Montañas de Carpish Mountain Range, some 50 km north of Huánuco. The wreckage was found few hours later about 30 meters below the summit. The aircraft was destroyed and all 67 occupants were killed, among them 45 Peruvians, 5 French, 2 Britons ,5 Italians, 2 Belgians and 8 US citizens. They were on their way to the Tingo Maria National Park located west of Las Palmas.

Aircraft reference details include registration OB-R-148, MSN 10284, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -9.9369°, -76.2394°.