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DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300
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Series 300

C-GETI (1)  HK-2760-X

HK-2760

• Registration • Activity and details of Owner/Operator and other historical information

• C-GETI (1) de Havilland Canada Inc., Downsview, ON. Rolled out date 10-Sep-1981. First flight 10-Sep-1981

• HK-2760-X Delivered to ACES-Aerolineas Enterprises Colombia, Bogota, Colombia, 15-Jan-1982

• HK-2760 Sold to AeroTACA, AeroTaxi Casanare, Bogota, Colombia. 1988

Incident Bogota, Colombia 13-Jun-1988 Jumped chocks during engine start and collided with building at Bogota; repaired & returned to Seriesvice.

Accident: 15 km (9.4 mls) W of Málaga Airport 08-Apr-1999. The Twin Otter was on a flight from Bucaramanga to Malaga. At 11:33 the pilot reported ten minutes out of Malaga. This was the last radio contact with the flight. The aircraft was found to have crashed into the fog-shrouded Cerro la Carbonera hill at 8000 feet amsl . Weather at Bucaramanga at 11:00 was temperature 20 deg C; 1017mB, wind calm with drizzle and fog. The accident site is 8 km off the procedural descent pattern.  Two crew and three passengers killed

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HK-2760-X of aces COLOMBIA at Miami.
Photo: Norbert Raith © January 1982 - Michael J. Ody Collection