Veracruz - San Salvador - Managua

On August 3, 1975 at 07:30 PM, Veracruz - San Salvador - Managua experienced a crash involving Douglas C-47 Skytrain (DC-3), operated by Nicaraguayan Air Force - Fuerza Aérea - Ejercito de Nicaragua, with the event recorded near Punta de Amapala La Unión.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

21 people were known to be on board, 21 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 3, passengers on board: 18, passenger fatalities: 18, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. The airplane was completing a charter flight from Veracruz to Managua with an intermediate stop in San Salvador, carrying 18 Mexican actors. While descending to San Salvador-Ilopango Airport, the crew was forced to make a go-around and could not land due to poor weather conditions. The captain decided to divert to an airport located on the coast when few dozen minutes later, the airplane crashed into the Gulf of Fonseca, about 300 meters off Punta de Amapala. All 21 occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration 412.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 13.1587°, -87.8962°.