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...crash of Avianca Flight 52 on Long Island's North Shore, which killed 72 of the 161 people aboard, was the first major air disaster in the U.S. since the United Airlines DC-10 crash in Iowa last July that killed 111. But for Colombia's national airline, it was the third serious mishap in eleven months. Counting last November's terrorist bombing of a Boeing 727, the disasters have taken 279 lives...
Bogota's El Tiempo reported that poor maintenance had caused two near crashes in the past two months, prompting indignant pilots to send a letter of protest to Avianca management. The pilots cited 37 failures of flight-control equipment on one plane alone between last October and December, said the paper...
...control tower at Bogota's El Dorado International Airport said the Avianca airliner left Bogota at 1:30 p.m. EST, arrived at Medellin 2:02 p.m. then left Medellin at 5:30 p.m. and was scheduled to land in New York...
...spokesperson for Avianca at El Dorado said the company would have no immediate information or statement...
Last Nov. 27, an Avianca Boeing 727 was bombed out of the sky minutes after takeoff from Bogota on a domestic flight to Cali. The explosion killed all 107 people on board...