Fairchild-Hiller FH-227 crash, Jan 17, 2002 (26 killed)
Fairchild-Hiller FH-227 accident on January 17, 2002 near Mt El Tigre, Nariño, Colombia with 26 fatalities. Cause: Controlled flight into terrain after...
- Date: January 17, 2002
- Aircraft: Fairchild-Hiller FH-227
- Location: Mt El Tigre, Nariño, Colombia
- Fatalities: 26
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Controlled flight into terrain after the crew lost situational awareness because their attention was on unrelated matters, with poor crew coordination, lack of CFIT and CRM training, and no ground proximity warning system.
A Fairchild-Hiller FH-227 chartered by Petroproduccion carried oil workers from Quito toward Nueva Loja. The crew did not follow an ATC heading change, then began descending in fog and struck the slope of Mt El Tigre. The aircraft broke up and all 26 people aboard were killed.