Avianca Flight 011

Infobox Airliner accident|name=Avianca Flight 011
Date=November 27, 1983
Type=Controlled flight into terrain
Site=near Madrid, Spain
Fatalities=181
Injuries=8
Aircraft Type=Boeing 747-283B
Origin=Frankfurt AirportFrankfurt,West Germany
Stopover1=Charles de Gaulle International Airport,Paris,France
Stopover2=Madrid Barajas International Airport,Madrid,Spain
Destination=El Dorado International Airport,Bogotá, Colombia
Operator=Avianca
Tail Number=HK-2910
Passengers=169
Crew=23
Survivors=11

Avianca Flight 011, registration HK-2910, was a Boeing 747-283B on an international scheduled passenger flight from Frankfurt via Paris to Bogotá with an intermediate stop in Madrid.

Avianca Flight 011 took off from Paris-Charles de Gaulle (CDG) at 22:25 for a flight to Bogotá (BOG) via Madrid (MAD). The Boeing 747 climbed to a cruising altitude of FL370. At 23:31 the crew contacted Madrid ACC, receiving clearance to continue to the Madrid VOR via Pamplona, Barahona, and Castejón. Fifteen minutes later the flight was cleared to descend to FL190. At 23:52 they were cleared down to FL90: "Avianca 011 está pasando Barahona, proceda ya directo a Charlie Papa Lima, y continúe descenso para el nivel nueve cero, cambio."After contacting Madrid Approach ar 23:56 they were cleared for a runway 33 approach. After reaching FL090 at 00:00 they were cleared further down. Madrid Tower at 00:03 then cleared the flight to land. Instead of turning right at the Madrid VOR, the crew initiated a turn short of the VOR beacon. The aircraft descended below the MDA for that area. The right main gear and no. 4 engine contacted a hill at an altitude of 2247 feet and a speed of 142 knots. Three seconds later the aircraft impacted a second hill at a speed of 135 knots and a 4,9deg. nose-up attitude. Six seconds after contacting the 2nd hill, the aircraft (at 126kts) hit the ground with the right wing, which broke off. The Boeing cartwheeled, broke in five pieces and came to rest upside down. Only 11 of the 169 passengers survived, and there were no survivors among the 23 crew. Among the dead were Peruvian poet Manuel Scorza, Mexican novelist Jorge Ibargüengoitia, and Uruguayan literary critic Ángel Rama.

External links

* [http://www.fomento.es/MFOM/LANG_CASTELLANO/DIRECCIONES_GENERALES/ORGANOS_COLEGIADOS/CIAIAC/PUBLICACIONES/HISTORICOS/AVIANCA/default.htm Report from the Ministry of Infrastructures, Spain] languageicon|es|Spanish.
* [http://www.fomento.es/NR/rdonlyres/D53C568D-2A84-490B-BEE0-9EC81EE287C4/8766/Anexo_A.pdf Transcript of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR)]
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19831127-0 Description at aviation-safety.net]
* [http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?regsearch=HK-2910X&distinct_entry=true Pre-Crash photos of HK-2910 at Airliners.net]

ee also

* List of accidents and incidents on commercial airliners