Aeropesca Flight 217

Aeropesca Flight 217 was an domestic scheduled passenger flight in Colombia from La Vanguardia Airport, Villavicencio to El Dorado International Airport, Bogotá.

[1] On 26 March 1982 the flight was operated by a four-engined Vickers Viscount turboprop registered HK-2382 which collided with a mountain at 7,700 feet 130 km south east from Bogotá near Quetame in bad weather.

Mid-flight, the aircraft crashed into a mountain at 7,700 feet from Bogota.

[3] The flight was under the command of Roberto Alfonso Simbaqueva (46) and co-pilot Alberto Leyva Garces (25).

There were 15 passengers noted in the crash, who are: Yaneth Tapias, Orlando Barrera, Luis Neira, Arley Camilde, Edgar Salazar, Fernando Mina, Camilo Perez, Joselin Perez, Celina Lopez, Emilce Toncón, Milton Toncon, Manuel Coy, Leopoldo Parra, Cecilia Vargas and Fernando Lara.