Passengers 20 Fatalities 23 Aircraft type Fairchild F-27 Number of deaths 23 Location Margarita Island | Crew 3 Survivors 0 Date 25 February 1962 Injuries (nonfatal) 0 | |
Site Margarita Island, Venezuela Summary Controlled flight into terrain Destination Antonio José de Sucre Airport Similar Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flig, Eastern Air Lines Flight 512, Caledonian Airways Flight 153, United Airlines Flight 297, Alitalia Flight 771 | ||
The 1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident occurred on 25 February 1962 when a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner registered YV-C-EVH of Avensa crashed into San Juan mountain on Venezuela's Margarita Island in the Caribbean Sea. All 20 passengers and three crew were killed.
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Accident
The F-27 was on a scheduled flight from Porlamar Airport to Cumaná Airport, when a few minutes after departure from Portamar, the aircraft impacted San Juan Mountain and was destroyed.
Aircraft
The aircraft, a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner had been built in the United States in 1958 and delivered new to Avensa on 18 September 1958.
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1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA