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Photo Flashback: The Colombian cargo plane crash on November 1962

Published:Friday | November 24, 2023 | 8:35 AM
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CHARRED TAIL SECTION of the C-46 Urraca Airlines (Colombia) cargo plane that crashed and burned on a hill near Port Henderson, shortly before 4 a.m on Monday, November 26, 1962. The pilot and co-pilot perished in the disaster.
THE TAIL SECTION ALONE remains as the fires die away in the crash of the Colombian aircraft on Monday, November 26, 1962. In left foreground, a fireman moves a piece of equipment in the scorched area where the two crew members were burned beyond recognition.
THE LONE SURVIOR of yesterday morning's plane crash, Linda Millis of Bogota, Colombia, being taken into the Spanish Town Hospital on a stretcher, after having received first aid in the ambulance on the way from the town square, where she was taken by a navy helicopter.
PART OF AN ENGINE from the ill-fated plane which crashed on Monday, November 26, 1962.
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In the early hours of Monday, November 26, 1962, a devastating crash occurred near Port Henderson involving a C-46 Urraca Airlines cargo plane from Colombia. The aircraft, engulfed in flames, left only the charred tail section as a grim reminder of the tragic incident.