Qualla: Aerocon Flight 25 https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25 en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:08 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Aerocon Flight 25 https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25 Aerocon Flight 25: Introduction https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25/ Five hundred people ran toward the fire. On the afternoon of November 3, 2013, a Swearingen SA-227AC Metro III operated by Aerocon Airlines veered off the runway at Riberalta Airport in Bolivia's Beni department, overturned in a field, and burst into flames. There was no fire truck at the airport. There was no emergency equipment of any kind. What there was, within minutes, was a crowd of ordinary people from the nearby town, armed with sticks, metal bars, and whatever tools they could grab, forcing open the crumpled fuselage to drag survivors out of the burning wreckage.

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/1/1/aerocon-flight-25-wp/6w11-aerocon-flight-25-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Aerocon Flight 25: One Hour in the Rain https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25/ The flight had departed Trinidad's Teniente Jorge Henrich Arauz Airport at 2:58 in the afternoon, carrying sixteen passengers and two crew members on the domestic route to Riberalta. Captain Kevin Roca Alpire and co-pilot Cecilia Tapia Salinas were flying a turboprop built in 198...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/1/1/aerocon-flight-25-wp/6w11-aerocon-flight-25-one-hour-in-the-rain.mp3 0:06 2 full Aerocon Flight 25: Windshear at the Threshold https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25/ At 3:55 PM, the crew reported passing the BIXIN waypoint. Two minutes later, they called the EDNAX fix, five nautical miles from the runway 32 threshold. What happened in the final moments of the approach was later attributed to windshear -- a sudden shift in wind speed or direct...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/1/1/aerocon-flight-25-wp/6w11-aerocon-flight-25-windshear-at-the-threshold.mp3 0:06 3 full Aerocon Flight 25: A Town Becomes the Rescue https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25/ In the absence of any airport emergency response, the people of Riberalta became the rescue team. Roughly five hundred residents converged on the crash site and physically tore open the aircraft to reach the people trapped inside. They managed to pull ten survivors from the burni...

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]]> Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/6/w/1/1/aerocon-flight-25-wp/6w11-aerocon-flight-25-a-town-becomes-the-rescue.mp3 0:06 4 full Aerocon Flight 25: The Pattern Nobody Stopped https://qualla.com/aerocon-flight-25/ The crash at Riberalta was not an isolated failure. According to the Bolivian government, it was Aerocon's fourth accident since 2012. President Evo Morales called for sanctions against the airline and demanded an investigation. The General Directorate of Civil Aviation formed a ...

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