On 15 January 1976, a Taxi Aereo el Venado DC-4 crashed into a mountain 50 km (31 mi; 27 nmi) from Bogota killing all 13 occupants on board the aircraft.

[1] The aircraft was on a domestic charter flight from Bogota-Eldorado Airport to La Macarena Airport with three crew and ten passengers.

[2] Nothing else was heard from the aircraft despite attempts by Air Traffic Control to contact them.

[2] Three hours later the local authorities in Chipaque reported that an aircraft had hit one of the peaks of the Western Cordillera at a height 3,540 m (11,610 ft), which had been hidden by clouds.

It was delivered to the United States Army Air Force (USAAF) on 26 January 1944 and was sold after the war to Pan Am, later Avianca, until sold in 1972 to Taxi Aereo el Venado.