BSAA Star Dust accident

When

2 Aug 1947

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

33.37° S, 69.76° W

Description

1947 plane crash

Deaths

11

Injured

0

Fatal aviation accident

On 2 August 1947, Star Dust, a British South American Airways (BSAA) Avro Lancastrian airliner on a flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Santiago, Chile, crashed into Mount Tupungato in the Argentine Andes. An extensive search operation failed to locate the wreckage, despite covering the area of the crash site.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “1947 BSAA Avro Lancastrian Star Dust accident: A British South American Airways Avro Lancastrian airliner crashes into a mountain during a flight from Buenos…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в аргентинских Андах потерпел катастрофу самолёт Avro Lancastrian «Star Dust», погибли 11 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Argentina, un Avro 691 Lancastrian de British South American Airways se estrella en el volcán Tupungato, a 4724 m s. n. m”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page