Avianca Flight 011

Avianca Flight 011

HK-2910X, the aircraft involved in the accident at Charles de Gaulle Airport in August 1983.
Accident summary
Date	November 27, 1983
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Mejorada del Campo, Madrid, Spain
Passengers	169
Crew	23
Injuries (non-fatal)	8
Fatalities	181
Survivors	11
Aircraft type	Boeing 747-283B
Aircraft name	Olafo
Operator	Avianca
Registration	HK-2910X
Flight origin	Frankfurt Airport Frankfurt, West Germany
2nd stopover	Charles de Gaulle Airport Paris, France
3rd stopover	Madrid Barajas Int'l Airport Madrid, Spain
4th stopover	Simón Bolívar Int'l Airport Caracas, Venezuela
Destination	El Dorado International Airport Bogotá, Colombia

Avianca Flight 011, registration HK-2910X (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 touched a hill, then a second one, before hitting the ground and disintegrating. All 19 crew members, as well as 162 out of 173 passengers, were killed. The cause of the accident was judged to be pilot error, having incorrectly determined the position of the plane.

As of 2013, Avianca Flight 011 remains the second-deadliest aviation accident in Spanish territory behind the Tenerife airport disaster. Today, Avianca still operates Flight 011, a daily flight from Madrid to Bogota, using a Boeing 787-800.

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
• Prinair Flight 277
• Japan Airlines Flight 123

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