Panama City - Panama City

On October 5, 2013 at 01:00 AM, Panama City - Panama City experienced a crash involving De Havilland DHC-8-200 (Dash-8), operated by Airborne Services Global, with the event recorded near Acandí Chocó.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

6 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 66.7%.

Crew on board: 2, crew fatalities: 0, passengers on board: 4, passenger fatalities: 4, other fatalities: 0.

The aircraft departed Panama City-Marcos A. Gelabert Airport in the evening on an anti-narcotic survey flight over Colombia, carrying four passengers and two pilots, five US citizens and one Panamanian. En route, while cruising along the border between Panama and Colombia, the aircraft collided with trees and crashed on the slope of a wooded mountain, bursting into flames. All four passengers were killed and both pilots were seriously injured.

Aircraft reference details include registration N356PH, MSN 502, year of manufacture 1997.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 8.6105°, -77.3870°.