[1] Among the dead were Argentine tango singer Carlos Gardel, and the co-author of the majority of his songs, Alfredo Le Pera, and one his guitarists, Guillermo Barbieri.

[2] The delegation had gotten off the plane that came from Bogotá to make a brief stopover to Cali, where five thousand people were waiting for him that night who had eagerly paid for their tickets to see him at the Isaacs Theater.

[1] The SACO F-31 plane was scheduled to take off from Olaya Herrera Airport in Medellín, Colombia at 2:51 pm on Monday, June 24, 1935, on a scheduled flight to Bogotá, Colombia, carrying 2 crew and 11 passengers including famous Argentine singer Carlos Gardel and his entourage.

It veered off the runway and collided with a taxiing aircraft (C-31, nicknamed Manizales), an explosion followed which engulfed both planes in flames.

An investigation of the accident revealed that the SACO F-31 flight lost control following strong lateral winds in combination with irregularities in the surface of the runway, that led the left main gear to leave the ground before rotation.