1938 Santa Ana air show disaster
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The 1938 Santa Ana air show disaster occurred on 24 July 1938 at a military review on the Campo de Marte in the Santa Ana district of Bogota, Colombia. During the review, a Curtiss Hawk II biplane of the Colombian Air Force piloted by Lieutenant César Abadia performed a stunt before crashing into a grandstand and then into the crowd.
The pilot attempted to fly between the presidential stand and the stand for diplomats when he miscalculated the distance and the aircraft's wing-tip struck the diplomatic stand. The Hawk II destroyed part of the roof of the presidential stand and then careened through the crowd bursting into flames before it came to a stop upside down.[2] Over fifty people, including civilians and soldiers were killed, and over a hundred injured.[3] Among those in the presidential stand but uninjured were the outgoing Colombian President Alfonso López Pumarejo and his successor Eduardo Santos.[4] Among the wounded was Misael Pastrana Borrero, a future president of Colombia.
See also
- Lists of air show accidents and incidents
- Sknyliv air show disaster – another air show disaster caused by a single military aircraft and resulting in over 50 fatalities
References
- ^ "Accident Details". Plane Crash info.com. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Plane's Crash into Crowd – 140 Killed and Injured". The Times. No. 48056. London. 26 July 1938. p. 12.
- ^ "Accident Synopsis – 1938-28". planecrashinfo.com. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
- ^ "Plane crashes into crowd as number killed". The Advertiser. 25 July 1938. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
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Aviation accidents and incidents in 1938 (1938)
Jan 10
Northwest Airlines Flight 2
Jan 11
Sikorsky S-42 Samoan Clipper
Feb 5
SSSR-V6 Osoaviakhim
Mar 1
TWA Flight 8
Jul 24
Santa Ana air show disaster
Jul 28
Martin M-130 Hawaii Clipper
Aug 24
Kweilin Incident
Sep 4
Edmonton, London, air crash
Oct 25
Kyeema crash
Nov 4
Jersey Airport disaster
1937 ◄ ► 1939
