International Airport, Oranjestad, Aruba with two crew. 14 August 1978: An Aeropasca Colombia C-46F (HK-1350) struck Mount Paramo de Laura in bad weather, killing all 18 on board. The pilots did not realize the aircraft had been blown off course due to insufficient navigation equipment; the aircraft was also overloaded. 4 August 1979: An Aircraft Line Maintenance C-46A (N8040Y, ex Austral LV-FSA) was being ferried from Buenos Aires to Miami when it struck a glacier on Cerro Tupangato in the Andes and broke in three, killing the five crew; the wreckage was found in 1981 by a Chilean rescue team searching for a missing helicopter. 13 November 1979: A Lambair C-46F (C-GYHT) crashed after take off from Churchill, Manitoba. The aircraft, nicknamed Miss Piggy, was carrying a load of one snowmobile and many cases of pop when it lost oil pressure in the left engine shortly after take-off. The crew attempted to land the aircraft, crashing several hundred meters short of the runway. Two of the three crew members were injured. The wreckage remains in place today. 1980s 15 November 1980: A BWI Leasing C-46A (N355BY) crashed off Norman's Cay, Bahamas; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off. 2000s 21 April 2012, 7 minutes after taking off from Viru – Viru International, Santa Cruz de la Sierra – Bolivia, Curtiss C-46 CP-1319 lost one engine and crashed with the loss of a crew of three and one injured. 25 September 2015, Buffalo Airways Flight 525 (a C-46A, C-GTXW) diverted to Déline Airport, Northwest Territories following engine failure and performed an emergency gear-up landing. Although the aircraft was substantially damaged and ultimately written off, all four on board were not injured. References Notes Bibliography Andrade, John M. US Military Aircraft Designations and Serials. Hinckley, Leicestershire, UK: Midland Counties Publications, 1979. . Bowers, Peter M. Curtiss Aircraft, 1907–1947. London: Putnam & Company Ltd., 1979. . Davis, John M., Harold G. Martin and John A. Whittle. The Curtiss C-46 Commando. Tonbridge, Kent, UK: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd., 1978. . Devlin, Gerard M. Paratrooper!: The Saga Of Parachute And Glider Combat Troops During World War II. London: Robson Books, 1979. . Groves, Clinton. Propliners: A Half-Century of the World's Great Propeller-Driven Airliners (Enthusiast Color Series). Minneapolis, Minnesota: Zenith Press, 1994. . Hardesty, Von. Red Phoenix: The Rise of Soviet Air Power 1941–1945. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, First edition 1982, 1991. . Johnson,