Aerolíneas Argentinas accidents and incidents

Following is a list of accidents and incidents experienced by Aerolíneas Argentinas. According to the Aviation Safety Network, as of July 2011^[update] the carrier experienced 12 deadly accidents throughout its history, totalling 335 fatalities.^[1] The deadliest one occurred in 1961, with a death toll of 67. The last accident involving fatalities the company experienced took place in 1970. The company ranks among the safest airlines in the world.^[2]

List

• 14 February 1992: Shrimp contaminated with cholera was distributed on Flight 386,^[30][31] which was bound to Los Angeles from Buenos Aires via Lima, Peru. This occurred amid a cholera outbreak that originated a year earlier in Peru.^[31] The contaminated shrimp entered the aircraft in Lima. Five passengers immediately showed signs of the illness after landing in Los Angeles, and later that number grew to more than 50.^[30] One of the ill passengers, a man in his early seventies named Aníbal Cufré,^[30][32] died from the illness.^[33][34] The company temporarily suspended its flights to Peru after the incident, while Peru replied banning the airline from entering its territory.^[31] The ban was lifted later that year.
• 12 June 1950: A Douglas C-47A, registration LV-ACL, overturned on landing at Ezeiza Airport.^[35]
• 3 June 1951: A Douglas C-47A, tail number LV-AGE, overran the runway and came to rest into a ditch at Puerto Deseado Airport.^[36]
• 17 June 1953: A Douglas C-54A, registration LV-ABQ, flying a domestic scheduled Salta–Córdoba passenger service, crash-landed 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) north of Córdoba while on approach to Pajas Blancas Airport.^[37]
• 16 October 1954: Bad weather forced a Convair CV-240-6, LV-ADQ, that was operating a scheduled Buenos Aires-Córdoba passenger service, to land near Capilla del Señor.^[38]
• 20 May 1955: A fire broke out on a Douglas C-47A-20-DK, registration LV-ACQ, that was operating a cargo service, after the aircraft failed to get airborne during take-off at Río Chico Airport, Río Gallegos, Argentina.^[39]
• 10 June 1958: A Douglas DC-6, tail number LV-ADV, that operated a scheduled international Río de Janeiro–Buenos Aires passenger service, force-landed on a beach after two of its engines failed.^[40]
• 14 July 1959: A Douglas C-47A-30-DL, registration LV-ACM, that was flying a domestic scheduled Buenos Aires–Córdoba passenger service, made a belly landing at Santiago del Estero.^[41]
• 12 December 1959: A Convair CV-240-6, LV-ADM, made a forced landing in a vineyard near Mendoza.^[42]
• 20 February 1960: A de Havilland DH-106 Comet, tail number LV-AHO, was lost on landing at Ezeiza Airport during a training flight.^[12][43]
• 15 July 1969: An Avro 748-105, tail number LV-IEV, failed landing in bad visibility at Comandante Espora Airport, Bahía Blanca, Argentina, as the aircraft touched down off the runway.^[44][45]
• 27 November 1969: An Avro 748-105, registration LV-HHI, ended up in a paddock following a landing 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) short of the runway threshold at Santa Rosa Airport.^[46][47]
• 19 December 1970: An Avro 748-105, tail number LV-HHH, was written off as a result of an accident at Sarmiento, Chubut, Argentina, under unspecified circumstances.^[48]
• 15 November 1975: A Fokker F-28-1000, tail number LV-LOB, flying a domestic scheduled Buenos Aires–Concordia passenger service, hit trees on approach to Concordia Airport, 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) short of the runway. The crew managed to land the aircraft safely, but the nose gear and the fuselage resulted damaged beyond economical repair.^[49][50]
• 27 January 1986: A Boeing 707-387C, registration LV-JGR, that operated a São Paulo–Buenos Aires freigther service, overran the runway on landing in poor weather at Ezeiza Airport.^[51][52]
• 5 January 1990: A Fokker F-28-4000, registration LV-MZD, flying a scheduled Buenos Aires–Villa Gesell passenger service, burned out after a second landing attempt at exceeded speed on the wet runway it overran.^[53][54]
• 20 November 1992: A Boeing-737-287C, tail number LV-JNE, that was due to operate Flight 8524, a scheduled San Luis–Buenos Aires-Aeroparque passenger service, overran the runway when it aborted take-off following the burst of a tyre at the San Luis Airport, catching fire.^{[nb 2]}

Footnotes

Notes

1. ^ This is an unlikely location for a flightpath between Mar del Plata and Buenos Aires.
2. ^ A discrepancy exists on whether the incident occurred on November 20,^[55] or 21.^[56]

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