Avianca Flight 011

Avianca Flight 011, registration HK-2910X^[1] (formerly LN-RNA), was a Boeing 747-283B on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt via Paris, Madrid, and Caracas to Bogotá that crashed on November 27, 1983.

The Frankfurt-Paris segment on this day had been cancelled by Avianca. As a result, the passengers who were to board Avianca flight 011 in Frankfurt had been placed on a Lufthansa flight to Paris. Because they had to wait for these passengers to land, the flight was delayed departing Paris. At 23:31 the airplane started descent to Madrid-Barajas Airport. During the descent, the airplane contacted a hill, then a second one, before falling to the ground and disintegrating. All 19 crew members, as well as 162 out of 173 passengers, were killed.^[1] The cause of the accident was judged to be a mistake of the pilot who incorrectly determined the position of the plane.^[1]

As of 2013, Avianca Flight 011 remains the second-deadliest aviation accident in Spanish territory behind the Tenerife airport disaster.Today, Avianca Flight 011 operates the same daily route from Madrid to Bogota, but as an Airbus A330-200.

Notable people killed

• Jorge Ibargüengoitia - Mexican novelist;
• Ángel Rama - Uruguayan writer, academic, and literary critic;
• Manuel Scorza - Peruvian novelist, poet, and political activist;
• Marta Traba - Argentine writer and art critic;
• Rosa Sabater - Spanish pianist.

See also

• List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners
• Korean Air flight 801

References

External links

External images

Pre-Crash photos of HK-2910 at Airliners.net

Photo of the crashed airliner from AirDisaster.com

• Report from the Ministry of Infrastructures, Spain - Civil Aviation Accident and Incident Investigation Commission (Spanish).
• Transcript of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR)
• Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network

Coordinates: 40°24′12″N 3°26′57″W / 40.40333°N 3.44917°W / 40.40333; -3.44917