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LAN-Chile Flight 107

1965 aviation accident

Field	Value
name	LAN-Chile Flight 107
Date	6 February 1965
Type	Pilot error, controlled flight into terrain
occurrence_type	Accident
Site	Near San José Volcano, Chile
Fatalities	88
aircraft_type	Douglas DC-6B-404
Operator	LAN Chile
Occupants	88
Passengers	81
Crew	7
Survivors	0
Origin	Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago, Chile
Destination	Ministro Pistarini International Airport, Ezeiza, Argentina
image	Douglas DC-6B, Lan Chile JP7769666.jpg
caption	A Douglas DC-6 of LAN Chile, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
callsign	LAN CHILE 107
tail_number	CC-CCG

LAN-Chile Flight 107 was a regular scheduled international flight from the Chilean capital Santiago to Buenos Aires in Argentina. On 6 February 1965, the Douglas DC-6B-404 operating the flight crashed in the Andes. All 88 occupants of the aircraft died in the crash.

Accident

The DC-6 departed from Santiago-Los Cerrillos Airport on the morning of 6 February with 80 passengers and seven crew members on board, on a flight to Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Ezeiza, near Buenos Aires. When the aircraft was at flight level 120, in the Las Melosas area of the Andes, it crashed into the side of La Corona Mountain, approximately 1200 ft below its summit. There were no survivors.

Twenty-two of the passengers had been players and staff of Santiago's Antonio Varas football team, who were on their way to Uruguay for a match against the Camadeo team in Montevideo.

As of 2021, Flight 107 was the deadliest aviation disaster in Chilean history and the second-deadliest aviation accident involving a DC-6, behind Olympic Airways Flight 954.

Cause

The accident investigation board attributed the accident to the pilot in command of the aircraft, who chose to follow a route that was neither in accordance with the approved flight plan nor the airline's operations manual. Weather was not a factor in the crash.

References

(7 February 1965). "La horrorosa tragedia del LAN 404". La Nación.
[http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19650206-0 Aircraft accident Douglas DC-6B CC-CCG San José Volcano]
(7 February 1965). "Chilean plane crash kills 87". Lewiston Morning Tribune.
Edgar A. Haine, ''Disaster in the Air'' (Cornwall Books, 2000) p153
[http://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?Country=CC Aviation Safety Network Database for Chile]
(1996). "Aviation Disasters Second Edition". Patrick Stephens Limited.

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