- Date
- September 21, 2013, 17:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Morona Santiago, Ecuador
- Injuries
- 3 fatal, 1 serious
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Phase of flight
- Initial climb
- Aircraft
- HC-BGTCessna R172K
- Defining event
- Initial climb: Loss of control in flight
- NTSB office
- Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency
- Other
- Case key
- 88116
From the NTSB’s public API. By law, NTSB reports can’t be used as evidence in lawsuits over the accident.
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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.
Loss of control in flightAll aircraft: 5,002 casesDefining event
Aircraft
- Registration
- HC-BGT
- Reported as
- Cessna R172K
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- CR1723010
- Damage
- Destroyed
- Flight
- Personal · Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Operator
- Aerosangay
- Registered owner
- Aerosangay
- Airworthiness certificate
- Unknown
- Departed
- Morona Santiago
- Destination
- XMS · Macas
- Airport
- Tayuntza, runway 04
Weather
Docket · 1
The files NTSB released with the investigation on October 23, 2013, on NTSB’s docket system: statements, records, photos and specialists’ reports. 77 KB in all.