- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: August 16, 2010
Time: 0149
Location: San Andreas Island, Colombia
Operator: AIRES Colombia
Flight #: ?
Route: Bogota - San Andreas Island
AC Type: Boeing B-737-73V
Registration: HK-4882 
cn / ln: 32416/1270
Aboard: 131   (passengers:125  crew:6)
Fatalities: 2   (passengers:2  crew:0)
Ground: 0
Summary: The airliner crashed onto the runway and broke in two during a major storm. One hundred twenty four people were injured. One passenger died of a heart attack and a 11- year-old girl died later of head injuries. Execution of the flight below the angle of approach, due to a misjudgment of the crew, believing to be much higher, leading the aircraft to fly a typical trajectory of a 'black hole' illusion, which was experienced during the night-time approach to a runway with low contrast surrounded in bright focused lights, aggravated by bad weather of heavy rain.
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