Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner, CP-2548, Flight A4-238: Accident occurred September 06, 2011 in Trinidad, Bolivia

NTSB Identification: DCA11RA098 
Accident occurred Tuesday, September 06, 2011 in Trinidad, Bolivia
Aircraft: M7Aero SW3, registration:
Injuries: 9 Fatal.

This is preliminary information, subject to change, and may contain errors. The foreign authority was the source of this information.

On September 6, 2011, an Aerocon Swearingen SA-227 Metroliner, registration CP-2548 performing flight A4-238 from Santa Cruz to Trinidad (Bolivia) with 7 passengers and 2 crew, was on approach to Trinidad when radio contact was lost. The airplane was located three days later during search efforts. Six passengers and two crew were fatally injured, and one passenger received serious injuries. The airplane was substantially damaged.

The Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil(DGAC)of Bolivia is investigating the accident. The NTSB designated a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the DGAC's investigation as the state of manufacture under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13.

All inquiries should be directed to:

Ministerio de Obras Públicas, Servicios y Vivienda
Viceministerio de Transportes
Dirección General de Aeronáutica Civil
Palacio de Comunicaciones
Av. Mcal. Santa Cruz No. 1278
4° Piso
La Paz
Bolivia

Website: www.dgac.gov.bo

Rescuers in Bolivia found no survivors in the wreckage of a plane that went missing earlier this week and crashed with nine people aboard, the country's aviation authority said Thursday.

Air crash in Bolivia. 
Photo: AFP

The Aerocom airline plane was carrying seven passengers and two crew members on a flight from the eastern Bolivian city of Santa Cruz to Trinidad in the country's northeast when it vanished from radar on Tuesday.

"Rescuers reached the crash site in the afternoon and confirmed that there were no accident survivors," the Bolivian General Aeronautics Directorate (DGAC) said in a statement.

The wreckage of the plane was found 30 kilometers (about 20 miles) northeast of the city of Trinidad, in the Amazon jungle province of Beni, said Aerocom spokesman Nelson Kinn.

Two of the passengers killed in the crash were Colombians, Kinn said.

Defense Minister Cecilia Chacon, who is heading the rescue efforts, told reporters that rescuers were transporting the bodies to the provincial capital Trinidad, a city of some 130,000 in the Bolivian Amazon basin some 600 kilometers northeast of La Paz.

Local media earlier reported that the plane was just 10 miles from Trinidad when air traffic controllers lost track of it.

The passenger plane that went off the radars in Bolivia on Tuesday was found 500km to the north-east of the administrative capital of La Paz.

There were seven passengers, a pilot and two crew members on board. The plane has apparently crashed in the selva 15 km.


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