| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | June 06, 1992 |
| Time: | ? |
| Location: | Tucuti, Panama |
| Operator: | COPA (Panama) |
| Flight #: | 201 |
| Route: | Panama City, Panama - Cali, Colombia |
| AC Type: | Boeing B-737-204 |
| Registration: | HP-1205 |
| cn / ln: | 22059/631 |
| Aboard: | 47 (passengers:40 crew:7) |
| Fatalities: | 47 (passengers:40 crew:7) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | Twenty minutes after leaving Panama, the aircraft changed course to miss an area of thunderstorms. It then went into uncontrolled high speed dive and broke up at FL 100. Non-synchronization of artificial horizons. Malfunctioning attitude indicator. Both attitude indicators functioning off the same gyro. Crew neglected to perform a cross check. Pilot came out of a left bank and continued into a right bank that eventually rolled the aircraft and caused it to go into a steep dive from which recovery was not possible. |
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