Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
07JUL2008 at 0352LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Registration
 
N714CK
Location
 
Bogota
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Bogota - Miami
 
Construction number
 
22446/519
Year of manufacture
 
1981
     
Crew on board
 
8
Pax on board
 
0
Crew fatalities
 
0
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
3
Total fatalities
 
3

Circumstances
 
Shortly after take off, crew informed ATC about engine fire and requested to return to Bogota-El Dorado airport. Later, the aircraft lost height and hit a farm before crashing in an open field ocated 20 km west of Bogota. All eight crew members were seriously injured while 3 people living in the farm were killed.
 
   


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