Avianca Flight 203 was a Colombian domestic passenger flight from El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá to Alfonso Bonilla Aragón International Airport in Cali, Colombia of a Boeing 727. It was destroyed by a bomb over the municipality of Soacha on November 27, 1989. Drug king Pablo Escobar, of the Medellín drug cartel, planned the bombing in the lead-up to the 1990 elections, hoping the bomb plot would kill presidential candidate César Gaviria. Gaviria was not on the aircraft, despite Escobar's expectations, and went on to be elected president.
Dandeny Muñoz Mosquera (alias "La Quica"), the chief assassin for the Medellín Cartel, was convicted in 1994 in United States District Court of having been involved in the bombing and various other crimes, and was sentenced to 10 consecutive life sentences.
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External links
- INFORME DE ACCIDENTE DE AVIACIÓN Boeing 727-21, Número de Serie 19035, Matrícula HK-1803, Avianca en la Hacienda Canoas, El Charquito, Soacha, Cundinamarca, Colombia (04° 34' N 74° 15' W). Lunes 27 de noviembre de 1989, 07:16:39 HL (UTC-5) (Faltan las últimas páginas), Departamento Administrativo de Aeronáutica Civil (Colombia), División de Seguridad Aérea), Emitido el 28 de noviembre de 1989.
[https://archive.org/details/hk-1803-1989]