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TAME Ecuador Flight 173
The aircraft involved in the accident, photographed in May 1981 at Boeing Field, some months before delivery to TAME.
Accident
Date
11 July 1983[1]
Summary
Controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) due to pilot error
Site
Bashún Hill, Ricaurte parish, near Mariscal Lamar International Airport, Cuenca, Ecuador 2°51′55.3″S78°56′59.5″W / 2.865361°S 78.949861°W / -2.865361; -78.949861
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 737-2V2 Advanced
Aircraft name
Ciudad de Loja
Operator
TAME
IATA flight No.
EQ173
Registration
HC-BIG
Flight origin
Mariscal Sucre International Airport, Quito, Ecuador
Destination
Mariscal Lamar International Airport, Cuenca, Ecuador
Occupants
119
Passengers
111
Crew
8
Fatalities
119
Survivors
0
The 1983 TAME Boeing 737 crash occurred when TAME Ecuador Flight 173,[2] a Boeing 737-2V2 Advanced operated by Ecuador's national airline TAME, flying on a domestic route from the now-closed Mariscal Sucre International Airport in Quito to Mariscal Lamar International Airport in Cuenca, crashed into a hill during final approach just 1 mile (1.6 km; 0.87 nmi) from its final destination, killing all 119 people on board.[1]
The crash was the first and deadliest crash in the history of TAME, and it remains as the deadliest aircraft accident in the history of Ecuador. An investigation later determined that the flight crashed due to the flight crew's lack of experience on the aircraft type, which caused a controlled flight into terrain.[2][3]
^ abRanter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 737-2V2 HC-BIG Cuenca". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
^"Hace 29 años terminó un periodo trágico para la aviación en Cuenca" [29 years ago a tragic period for aviation in Cuenca ended]. EL TIEMPO (in European Spanish). 11 July 2012. Archived from the original on 31 March 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
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