Registration / Serial:OB-T-1326
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 340/440/540/580/640 (C-131)
Aircraft Version:Convair 440-40 Metropolitan
C/n (msn):447
Operator Titles:Aero Norte
City / Airport:Lima - Callao / Jorge Chávez International (SPJC / LIM)Map
Country:Peru
Photo Date:March 1992
Photo by:Richard VandervordContact
Photo ID:2603Submit Correction
View count: 630
Once well-known in Europe as Finnair's OH-LRF from new in 1957, this Convair was written off ferrying to Bolivia as CP-2256 for SASA on 13.9.93. Two hours after take-off from Lima, the crew realised that the magnetic compass was broken. Due to low fog the crew were not able get a visual fix so they climbed to FL180 to locate the Cordillera Mountain range. When the engines started to backfire, a belly landing was safely made in open countryside
Registration / Serial:OB-T-1326
Aircraft Version:Convair 440-40 Metropolitan
C/n (msn):447
Operator Titles:Aero Norte
City / Airport:Lima - Callao / Jorge Chávez International (SPJC / LIM)Map
Country:Peru
Photo Date:March 1992
Photo by:Richard VandervordContact
Registration / Serial:OB-T-1326
Aircraft Original Type:Convair 240
Aircraft Generic Type:Convair 340/440/540/580/640 (C-131)
Aircraft Version:Convair 440-40 Metropolitan
C/n (msn):447
Operator Titles:Aero Norte
City / Airport:Lima - Callao / Jorge Chávez International (SPJC / LIM)Map
Country:Peru
Photo Date:March 1992
Photo by:Richard VandervordContact
Photo ID:2603Submit Correction
View count: 630
Once well-known in Europe as Finnair's OH-LRF from new in 1957, this Convair was written off ferrying to Bolivia as CP-2256 for SASA on 13.9.93. Two hours after take-off from Lima, the crew realised that the magnetic compass was broken. Due to low fog the crew were not able get a visual fix so they climbed to FL180 to locate the Cordillera Mountain range. When the engines started to backfire, a belly landing was safely made in open countryside
Registration / Serial:OB-T-1326
Aircraft Version:Convair 440-40 Metropolitan
C/n (msn):447
Operator Titles:Aero Norte
City / Airport:Lima - Callao / Jorge Chávez International (SPJC / LIM)Map
Country:Peru
Photo Date:March 1992
Photo by:Richard VandervordContact