American Airlines Flight 965
1995 passenger plane crash in Colombia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia. On December 20, 1995, the Boeing 757-200 flying this route (registration N651AA[1]) crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, around 9:40 pm killing 151 of the 155 passengers and all eight crew members.[2][3]
Accident | |
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Date | December 20, 1995 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error and loss of situational awareness |
Site | Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia 3°50′45.2″N 76°06′17.1″W |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 757–223 |
Operator | American Airlines |
IATA flight No. | AA965 |
ICAO flight No. | AAL965 |
Call sign | AMERICAN 965 |
Registration | N651AA |
Flight origin | Miami International Airport, Florida, United States |
Destination | Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, Cali, Colombia |
Occupants | 163 |
Passengers | 155 |
Crew | 8 |
Fatalities | 159 |
Injuries | 4 |
Survivors | 4 |
The crash was the first U.S.-owned 757 accident and is currently the deadliest aviation accident to occur in Colombia.[2][4] It was also the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 757 at that time,[5] but was surpassed by Birgenair Flight 301 which crashed seven weeks later with 189 fatalities.[6] Flight 965 was the deadliest air disaster involving a U.S. carrier since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.[7]
The Colombian Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics investigated the accident and determined it was caused by navigational errors by the flight crew.[8]