What happened
During a nighttime departure from Mar del Plata-Brigadier General Bartolomé de la Colina Airport, an aircraft entered a fatal sequence of events while ascending. Following standard procedures, the pilot-in-command initiated a turn during the climb phase. During this maneuver, the aircraft experienced a loss of control, leading to an aerodynamic stall.
The plane subsequently impacted the ocean at a distance of approximately three kilometers from the coastline. There were ten fatalities among the occupants of the aircraft, with no survivors reported from the crash site.
Findings
Official investigations into the accident were unable to establish a definitive cause for the loss of control. However, investigators noted that spatial disorientation involving the pilot-in-command is a suspected contributing factor in the crash.