Part 34: Chile

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This plane crash takes us to the South American country of Chile, which is located next to the following countries: Peru, Bolivia and Argentina.

WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH

Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft involved in this crash

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Pictured above is a similar type of aircraft involved in this crash

LAN-Chile Flight 107, registered as Charlie Charlie- Charlie Charlie Golf (CC-CCG), was a regularly scheduled international passenger flight from the Chilean airport of Los Cerrillos Airport (IATA: ULC, ICAO: SCTI), Santiago, Chile to the Argentinian airport of Ministro Pistarini International Airport (IATA: EZE, ICAO: SAZE), Buenos Aires, Argentina, on the 6th of February 1965, the Douglas DC-6B-404 operating the flight crashed in the Andes mountain range, all 87 people on board the plane were killed in the crash.

The DC-6 aircraft departed from Santiago's- Los Cerrillos Airport on the morning of the 6th of February 1965 with 80 passengers and seven crew members were on board the aircraft, it was on a flight to Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Ezeiza, which is located near Buenos Aires, when the flight was at flight level 120 (12,000 feet) in an area known as the Las Melosas area in the Andes mountains, the plane crashed into the side of La Corona Mountain, approximately 1,200 feet below the summit of the mountain, there were no survivors, as of 2021, Flight 107 was the deadliest aviation disaster in Chilean history and the second-deadliest aviation accident involving a DC-6 aircraft.

The summary of the crash was Pilot error leading to Controlled Flight into Terrain.

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