I know that reporting news is Saab 2000’s job… but I’ve just seen this on Skynews.co.uk.
Plane ‘Disappears’
An Ecuadorean airplane with 92 people on board has been declared missing after losing contact with air traffic controllers.
The Boeing 720-100 took off from Quito’s airport at 3.23pm GMT bound for the northern city of Tulcan on the border with Colombia, aviation authorities said.
“What we’re talking about is it’s disappeared,” said Quito airport chief Pablo Lopez.
Seven crew members, a mechanic, an operations technician and 83 passengers were on board the flight, operated by Ecuadorean state airline, Tame.
Tame spokeswoman Toa Quirola said the flight between Quito and Tulcan should take between 30 and 40 minutes.
By: Comet - 31st January 2002 at 09:34
RE: Wreckage found
That is awful, I never heard about it, or saw anything in the newspapers.
By: Dutchy - 30th January 2002 at 13:15
RE: Wreckage found
No survivors, so 92 left dead in the wreckage. It crashed against the mountains, volcano, in Colombia.
The pilot was visually searching for the airport in extremely bad conditions.
JW
By: keltic - 29th January 2002 at 19:30
RE: Wreckage found
Very sad news. I had hopes it had been hijacked.
By: T5 - 29th January 2002 at 18:14
RE: Wreckage found
From HTTP://NEWS.BBC.CO.UK/
Boeing 727 crashes
22 Dec 92 – 157 killed on a Libyan Arab Airlines 727-200 near Tripoli, Libya
19 May 93 – 132 killed on SAM Colombia 727-100 near Medillin, Colombia
7 Nov 96 – 141 killed on ADC 727 near Lagos, Nigeria
19 Mar 98 – 45 killed on Ariana Afghan Airlines 727-200 near Charasyab, Afghanistan
20 Apr 98 – 53 killed on 727-200 near Bogota, Colombia
By: Saab 2000 - 29th January 2002 at 16:51
Wreckage found
The wrekage of the aircraft has been found,no confirmation if there are any survivors but its very unlikely.More at Yahoo news:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20020129/ts/ecuador_plane.html
By: Saab 2000 - 28th January 2002 at 19:19
RE: Ecuadorean Boeing 720-100
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 28-01-02 AT 07:20 PM (GMT)]Any chance it could of been shot down by the colombian army or rebel forces as i know ther is a lot of tension around the boarder area?just a thought.Its a terrible loss for TAME,another 727 crashed near Bogota in 1998.Extremely bad news.
By: EHVB - 28th January 2002 at 19:14
RE: Ecuadorean Boeing 720-100
Dutch TV just said that it was a TAME Boeing 727, and that it has crashed.
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January 28, 2002 at 6:57 pm