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 | |
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