• On 19 April 1960, a Lloyd Aéreo Colombiano
Curtiss C-46 Commando crashed on approach to BOG because of loss of height and speed in the final approach turn. Six crew and 31 passengers out of 51 on board were killed. • On 22 September 1966, an
Avianca Douglas DC-4 struck trees attempting to return to the airport following engine problems. Both occupants died. • On 18 December 1966, a Aerocondo-Aerovías Cóndor de Colombia
Lockheed L-1649 Starliner crashed on approach 10-20m short of the runway threshold. Four crew and 13 passengers died out of the 59 on board. • On 21 January 1972, a
Lineas Aereas La Urraca Vickers Viscount crashed during a rainstorm shortly after leaving Bogota for San Andes. All five crew and 15 passengers perished. • On 7 June 1973,
Vickers Viscount HK-1061 of
Aerolíneas TAO was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident on landing. • On 27 August 1973, an Aerocondor-Aerovías Cóndor de Colombia
Lockheed L-188 Electra flew into a mountain 12 km (7.4 mi) SE of BOG because the flight crew did not follow the prescribed departure procedure following takeoff. All six crew and 36 passengers died. • On 10 July 1975, an Aerocondor Lockheed L-188 Electra veered to the right shortly after lift off, sank back and struck another aircraft, causing a fire that destroyed both aircraft. Two occupants out of the four occupants died. • On 29 April 1978, a
LAC Colombia Douglas DC-6 crashed 1 km NW of the airport because the aircraft was configured for cargo, not for carrying passengers. All three crew and five out the nine passengers were killed. • On 22 August 1979, a SATERA
Hawker Siddeley HS 748 was stolen by a 23-year-old man who was an airline mechanic who was just fired. The aircraft crashed into a Bogota suburb, killing the pilot and three on the ground. • On 24 January 1980,
Douglas C-53D HK-2214 of
Aerotal Colombia crashed after an in-flight engine failure following which the propeller on the engine was feathered. The aircraft was on a test flight. All four on board were killed. • On 8 February 1986,
Douglas DC-3 HK-3031 of
SAEP Colombia crashed on approach. The port engine had lost power shortly after take-off on a cargo flight to
Rondon Airport and the decision was made to return to Bogotá. Although the aircraft was destroyed in the post-impact fire, all five people on board survived. • On 27 November 1989,
Avianca Flight 203, flying from Bogota to
Alfonso Bonilla Aragon International Airport in
Cali, was destroyed by a bomb while flying over
Soacha. All 107 passengers and crew and three people on the ground died.
Pablo Escobar bombed the plane in an attempt to assassinate presidential candidate
César Gaviria Trujillo, who was not on the plane and was elected
President of Colombia in 1990. • On 25 January 1990,
Avianca Flight 052, flying on a
Bogotá-Medellín-New York JFK route, crashed on
Long Island after running out of fuel. • On 20 February 1993, a Cargo Three Panama
Convair CV-440 crashed into a field 3 km (1.9 mi) W of the airport because of an engine fire. Both occupants perished. • On 20 April 1998,
Air France Flight 422 from El Dorado Airport to
Quito,
Ecuador, using an aircraft leased from
TAME and flown with Ecuadorian crew, crashed less than two minutes after taking off into a mountain in eastern Bogotá. All 43 passengers and 10 crew died. • On 11 October 2007, a Rio Jur
Beechcraft Super King Air impacted the ground after banking right abruptly, passed a hangar, then impacted houses near the approach end of the runway. All five occupants were killed along with two on the ground. • On 7 July 2008, a
Kalitta Air Boeing 747-209B, operating as
Centurion Air Cargo Flight 164 on an aircraft that had been leased to
Centurion Air Cargo, crashed shortly after departing from El Dorado International Airport in
Bogotá at 3:55 am. The plane was en route to
Miami, Florida, with a shipment of flowers. After reporting a fire in one of the engines, the plane attempted returning to the airport but crashed near the village of
Madrid, Colombia. One of the plane's engines hit a farm house, killing an adult and two children who lived there. The crew of eight survived. • On November 10, 2024, an
Aerosucre Boeing 727-200 Freighter aircraft, taking off on a flight,
Aerosucre flight 372, to
Valencia, Venezuela, overran the runway and struck a localizer antenna after becoming airborne, damaging the jet's landing gear and left wing. The plane burned fuel on the air for one hour before landing safely at Bogota. No injuries were reported. ==Accolades==