TANS Fokker F-28 plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- TANS
- Aircraft
- Fokker F-28
- Location
- Cerro Coloque, Peru
- Date
- 9th January, 2003
- People on board
- 46
- Fatalities
- 46
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Accident account
The aircraft was on a passenger flight from Chiclayo to Chachapoyas. A few minutes before landing at its destination airport, the crew declared an emergency. The aircraft disappeared from radar screens shortly thereafter. The plane crashes atop a hill north of Chachapoyas in an area known as Cerro Coloque, 10,900 feet above sea level. All 46 passengers and crew members were killed.
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