Bogotá – Panama City

On February 20, 1993 at 12:00 AM, Bogotá – Panama City experienced a crash involving Convair CV-440 Metropolitan, operated by Cargo Three Panama - C3 Panama, with the event recorded near Bogotá-El Dorado Bogotá Capital District.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was takeoff (climb) at a airport (less than 10 km from airport) crash site.

2 people were known to be on board, 2 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 2, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. After takeoff from Bogotá-El Dorado Airport, while climbing, the crew declared an emergency and informed ATC about an engine failure. The crew was cleared to return when the aircraft lost height and crashed in a field located 3 km west of the airport. Both pilots were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration HP-1200CTH, MSN 413, year of manufacture 1957.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 4.6163°, -74.0738°.