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 Wreckage of N651AA at the crash site | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | December 20, 1995 |
| Summary | Controlled flight into terrain caused by navigational error and pilot error |
| Site | Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia 3°50′45.2″N 76°06′17.1″W / 3.845889°N 76.104750°W |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 757–223 |
| Operator | American Airlines |
| IATA flight No. | AA965 |
| ICAO flight No. | AAL965 |
| Call sign | AMERICAN 965 |
| Registration | N651AA |
| Flight origin | Miami International Airport, Florida, United States |
| Destination | Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport, Cali, Colombia |
| Occupants | 163 |
| Passengers | 155 |
| Crew | 8 |
| Fatalities | 159 |
| Injuries | 4 (initially 5) |
| Survivors | 4 (initially 5) |
American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia. On December 20, 1995, the Boeing 757-200 flying this route (registration N651AA[1]) crashed into a mountain in Buga, Colombia, around 9:40 pm killing 151 of the 155 passengers and all eight crew members.[2][3]
The crash was the first U.S.-owned 757 accident and is currently the deadliest aviation accident to occur in Colombia.[2][4] It was also the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 757 at that time,[5] but was surpassed by Birgenair Flight 301 which crashed seven weeks later with 189 fatalities.[6] Flight 965 was the deadliest air disaster involving a U.S. carrier since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988.[7]
The Colombian Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics investigated the accident and determined it was caused by navigational errors by the flight crew.[8]
- ^ "FAA Registry (N651AA)". Federal Aviation Administration.
- ^ a b Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 757–223 N651AA Buga". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ AA965 Cali Accident Report Aeronautica Civil
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "Colombia air safety profile". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "Boeing 757". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Boeing 757–225 TC-GEN Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic". Aviation Safety Network. Flight Safety Foundation. Retrieved February 1, 2019.
- ^ Acohido, Byron (January 18, 1996). "American Airlines jet crashes in the Andes". The Seattle Times. Retrieved May 6, 2009.
- ^ "Controlled Flight Into Terrain, American Airlines Flight 965, Boeing 757–223, N651AA, Near Cali, Colombia, December 20, 1995" (PDF). Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics. September 6, 1996. Archived (PDF) from the original on January 24, 2021. Retrieved January 4, 2020 – via Aviation Safety Network.
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