Tag: Florencia Colombia
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On This Day In 1981: The Mountain Was Hidden By Clouds – Aeropesca Flight 221 Hit It At About 8,500 Feet, Killing All 50
On 26 August 1981, Aeropesca Flight 221 departed Florencia, Colombia, bound for Neiva. The scheduled domestic service was operated by a four-engine Vickers Viscount 745D, registration HK-1320, carrying 44 passengers and six crew members. None of them would survive. The aircraft, named Ciudad de Popayan, had first flown in Britain on 22 February 1956. It…
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