page_title: Avianca El Salvador
section_title: Accidents and incidents
hierarchical_section_title: Avianca El Salvador / Accidents and incidents
caption_attribution_description: English: Taca Flight 510 Crash in Guatemala City, April 1993
context_page_description: Transportes Aereos del Continente Americano, operating as Avianca El Salvador, is an airline owned by the Synergy Group based in El Salvador. As TACA, it was the flag carrier of El Salvador. As Avianca El Salvador, it is one of the seven nationally branded airlines in the Avianca Holdings group of Latin American airlines, and has been in operation for 75 years.
  TACA owned and operated five other airlines in Central America, and its name was originally an acronym meaning Transportes Aéreos Centroamericanos, but this was changed to Transportes Aéreos del Continente Americano, reflecting its expansion to North, Central, South America and the Caribbean.
  On October 7, 2009, it was announced that TACA would merge with Avianca, though TACA maintained its name until the merger was officially completed on May 21, 2013.
  TACA Airlines was the second-oldest continuously operating airline brand in Central America and the Caribbean after Cubana de Aviación.
context_section_description: On March 5, 1959, Vickers Viscount YS-09C crashed shortly after take-off from Managua Airport, Nicaragua when both port engines failed. 15 of the 19 people on board were killed.
  On May 24, 1988, a Boeing 737-300 operating as TACA Flight 110 to New Orleans suffered a double engine flame-out due to water ingestion, a result of an in-flight encounter with an area of very heavy rain and hail. The design of the engines and FAA water ingestion certification standards did not take into account the higher water volume of strong or severe thunderstorms while operating at lower power.  The plane landed without further damage on a grass levee at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility. All 45 passengers were uninjured.
  On April 5, 1993, a Boeing 767-200 operating as TACA Flight 510, overran the runway at Guatemala City's La Aurora International Airport due to an inability to brake on the flooded runway.
  On May 30, 2008, an Airbus A320, registration EI-TAF, operating as TACA Flight 390, from San Salvador overran a rain-soaked runway on landing at Toncontín International Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. There were 5 fatalities, 2 of which were on the ground.
caption: TACA Flight 510 crash in Guatemala City, April 6, 1993
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