- Date
- December 12, 2025, 08:40 local (13:40 UTC)
- Place
- Soledad, Colombia · Google map lat/long of Barranquilla Airport
- Injuries
- 4 uninjured
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- HK5216Boeing 727
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Investigation class
- Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office
- Major Investigations Division
- Lead agency
- Other
- Parties
- Boeing ASI, Colombia DIACC, Pratt & Whitney
- Case key
- 202160
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Sequence of events
The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event is the one that best describes the accident. Under each, the cases with the same event anywhere in their sequence.
Sys/Comp malf/fail (non-power)All aircraft: 994 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HK5216
- Reported as
- Boeing 727 (227)
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 21996
- Engines
- Pratt & Whitney JT8D, turbo fanPratt & Whitney JT8D, turbo fanPratt & Whitney JT8D, turbo fan
- Damage
- Minor damage
- Flight
- Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator
- Aerosucre
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Transport
- Destination
- SKBO · Bogota
- Airport
- SKBQ · Ernesto Cortissoz Barranquilla International Airport, runway 05, 9,846 × 148 ft, asphalt
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Night
- Wind
- 40° at 9 knots
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter
- 29.74 inHg
- Observed at
- SKBQ
- METAR
- SKBQ 120900Z 04009KT 010V070 CAVOK 27/24 Q1007=