| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | March 05, 1959 |
| Time: | 1335 |
| Location: | Managua, Nicaragua |
| Operator: | TACA |
| Flight #: | ? |
| Route: | Las Mercedes - Tegucigalpa |
| AC Type: | Vickers Viscount 763 |
| Registration: | YS-09C |
| cn / ln: | 082 |
| Aboard: | 19 (passengers:15 crew:4) |
| Fatalities: | 15 (passengers:13 crew:2) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Crashed shortly after takeoff, inverted, into trees. Failure of No. 1 engine on climbout. The non-retraction of the landing gear immediately after the aircraft reached V2. Failure of engine No. 2 a few seconds later. The aircraft banked left, lost altitude and collided with trees. Engine failure cause unknown. |
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