B747 Crash in Bogota
 

Hear early this morning that a Kalitta B747 operating for Centurion Air Cargo returning to Bogota after an engine failure crash before it reach the airport.

Had check every news source and nothing is reported.

Where did you hear about this?

Thread running on Rumours and News.

From ASN : (Air Safety Network
Status: Preliminary

Quote:
Date: 07 JUL 2008
Time: 03:52
Type: Boeing 747-200F
Operator: Centurion Air Cargo
Registration: N
C/n / msn:
First flight:
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8
Passengers: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 8
Ground casualties: Fatalities: 2
Airplane damage: Destroyed
Airplane fate: Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location: near Bogota (Colombia)
Phase: Climb (ICL)
Nature: Cargo
Departure airport: Shreveport Regional Airport, LA (BOG/SKBO), Colombia
Destination airport: Miami International Airport, FL (MIA/KMIA), United States of America

Narrative:

Crashed on a farm shortly after takeoff. The airplane carried a cargo of flowers to Miami (MIA).
Centurion's flights frmo Bogota to Miami are sometimes carried out by Kalitta Air Boeing 747-209BSF N714CK. It has not been confirmed yet if this was the plane involved in the accident.


Sources:

» La Republica

This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
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The aircraft is CK714 own by Kalitta and operated on a wet lease by Centurion Air Cargo, so far 2 dead on the ground crew appear to be ok just minor injuries. The aircraft took off on runway 31L and the tower reported two bang from one of the engines. It crash just left of the departure end of the runway.

It is not a rumor. The news just coming in.

A sad thing for Kalitta, in about 1,5 month loosing its managing director and 2 aircrafts. Luckily the crew each time escaped.

Be sure that this incident might close the European skies for Kalitta or even put European aviation authorities to re-consider if an FAA approved aircraft is reliable or not ?

Airlines can have bad luck as the incident that happened in Brussels 28 may.

Not even 40 days further another one of Kalitta has crashed (again engine problems???) Kalitta has a good standard on maintenance, but airframes are very old, so what to think about ? Or do we simply have to conclude that the -100 and -200 airframes are likely to be scrapped, keeping some for museum purposes.

Even without drastic measures of governments, the best days of the 747-100 and 747-200 are over. Every dollar the barrel of oil raises, lowers the value of the frames, until they will be only of scrap aluminium value.

The Kalitta website shows this schedule:

Flight ID : CWC263Flight No. : 32024Tail No. : N714CKEquipment : 747ETD KMIA7/9/2008 13:00 UTCETA SBKP7/9/2008 21:00 UTCFlight ID : CWC264Flight No. : 32024Tail No. : N714CKEquipment : 747ETD SBKP7/10/2008 01:00 UTCETA SKBO7/10/2008 06:45 UTCETD SKBO7/10/2008 08:45 UTCETA KMIA7/10/2008 12:15 UTC

Looks like that confirms that the airplane involved is N714CK.

Check your data!
 

PH-SCP......The schedule that you posted is for the 9th and 10th July......!!!!!!!

Check before posting please.

In addition, Connie Kallitta's son, Scott, was killed in the last month in a drag racing accident.

ExRAFboy,

That's what the aircraft N714CK was SCHEDULED to do, he was just confirming which aircraft was lost in Colombia.

I'm going to close this thread. There is another on R&N to which some of you have already contributed.

http://www.pprune.org/forums/rumours...wn-bogota.html