American Airlines Flight 965 was a regularly scheduled flight from Miami International Airport in Miami , Florida , to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali , Colombia . On December 20 , 1995 , the Boeing 757-200 flying this route ( registration ) crashed into a mountain in Buga , Colombia , killing 151 out of the 155 passengers and all eight crew members . The crash was the first U.S.-owned 757 accident and is currently the deadliest aviation accident to occur in Colombia . It was also the deadliest accident involving a Boeing 757 at that time , but was surpassed by Birgenair Flight 301 which crashed seven weeks later with 189 fatalities . Flight 965 was the deadliest air disaster involving a U.S. carrier since the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988 . Five passengers , all seated within two rows of each other , survived the initial impact , but one died two days later of his injuries . In addition to the four human survivors , a dog , who had been in a carrier in the cargo hold at the time of the crash , survived the incident
Pan Am Flight 103
Pan Am Flight 103
American Airlines Flight 965