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Venezuelan authorities and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident.
Venezuelan authorities and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident.


The cause of the accident was determined as an engine failure.The cause for the engine failure and loss of control was not determined.<ref name="asn" />
The cause of the accident was determined as an engine failure. The cause for the engine failure and loss of control was not determined.<ref name="asn" />


== In popular culture ==
== In popular culture ==

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Avensa Flight 358
An AVENSA DC-9, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date22 December 1974
Summaryengine failure
SiteNear Maturin, Venezuela
Aircraft
Aircraft typeMcDonnell Douglas DC-9-14
OperatorAVENSA
RegistrationYV-C-AVM
Flight originMaturín Airport, Venezuela
DestinationSimón Bolívar International Airport, Venezuela
Passengers69
Crew7
Fatalities75
Survivors0

Avensa Flight 358 was a scheduled airline flight from Maturín Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela that crashed on 22 December 1974 killing all 75 people on board.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a seven-year-old DC-9-14, which had been delivered to Avensa from McDonnell Douglas in 1967.

Accident

On 22 December 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, with 69 passengers and 6 crew on board, took off on runway 05 from Maturín Airport.[1] Five minutes after takeoff both engines shut down.[1] The pilots notified the control tower. The pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed 32 km (20 mi; 17 nmi) from the city of Maturín, Venezuela.[1] All 75 on board the flight perished.[1][2]

Cause

Venezuelan authorities and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident.

The cause of the accident was determined as an engine failure. The cause for the engine failure and loss of control was not determined.[1]

This accident was briefly featured on the Globovisión channel on 23 February 2008, due to the crash of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518.

See also

Similar accidents

References

  1. ^ a b c d e ASN Aircraft accident, Sunday 22 December 1974, Retrieved 21 September 2013
  2. ^ "Resumen de Accidentes Aéreos en Venezuela - Resumen de accidentes aér - Aviones" [Summary of Air Accidents in Venezuela - Summary of air accidents - Aircraft]. www.volarenvenezuela.com (in Spanish). Volar en Venezuela.Com Portal de Aviación Civil de Venezuela, Aviones, Información, Equipos, Talleres, Estado del tiempo. Retrieved 9 January 2017.

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