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The NTSB also found no evidence that the flight crew ever requested weather information en route or communicated with Avianca dispatchers about their fuel status and intents as other flights did. [2]: 52 Flight 052 did not make contact with FAA flight service stations or flight watch en route, and the NTSB was unable to determine why. The ...
The flight engineer was 57-year-old Juan Laverde, another one of Avianca's veteran pilots, who had been with the airline for 25 years and had 15,942 flight hours. He was the most experienced on the Boeing 747, having logged 3,676 hours on it. [1] There were also two relief flight engineers on board: Daniel Zota and Julio Florez Camacho. [10]
Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A., "Airways of the American Continent", and stylized as avianca since October 2023) is the largest airline in Colombia. It has been the flag carrier of Colombia [ 5 ] [ 6 ] since December 5, 1919, when it was initially registered under the name SCADTA .
Aviation accidents and incidents on Avianca flights Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. 0–9. ... Avianca Flight 203;
Year of foundation: 1919 First flight: 1919 Passengers transported in 2022: 24.6 million. Founded by German immigrants in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1919, Avianca was originally named SCADTA and ...
On November 19, 2006, a DC-10 operated by Cielos Airlines overran the runway while landing in bad weather, All 6 crew were injured. On November 21, 2006, Avianca Flight 9522, which was inbound from Bogotá, also overran the runway. All 135 people survived.
Airlines including Air Panama, Air Transat, American Airlines, Avianca, Copa Airlines, EasyFly, JetBlue, LATAM Colombia, LATAM Perú, Spirit Airlines, and Wingo have or had international flights from this airport to various cities in North, Central and South America.
Avianca Flight 203 was a Colombian domestic passenger flight from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia. It was destroyed by a bomb over the municipality of Soacha on November 27, 1989. [ 1 ]