Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518

Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518

Infobox Airliner accident
name = Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518
Crash



Image caption = A similar ATR 42
Coordinates = coord|8|39|33.804|N|71|14|17.307|W
Origin = Alberto Carnevalli Airport, Mérida, Venezuela
Destination = Simón Bolívar International Airport, Caracas, Venezuela
Date = start date|2008|02|21
Type = TBD
Site = Venezuela
Fatalities = 46
Aircraft Type = ATR 42-300
Operator = Santa Bárbara Airlines
Tail Number = YV1449
Passengers = 43
Crew = 3
Survivors = 0

Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518, was a ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop aircraft, registration YV1449, operating as a scheduled domestic flight from Mérida, Venezuela to Caracas that crashed into the side of a mountain on February 21, 2008, shortly after takeoff. [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080221-0 ASN accident record] ] [cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/02/21/venezuela.plane/index.html | title=Jetliner reported missing in Venezuela|date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-02-22|publisher=CNN] Forty-three passengers were reportedly on board, with a crew of two pilots and a flight attendant. [cite news| url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb0FRvssmaa9sqaM8Fqre6bIkMpAD8UV2LB80| title=Plane Carrying 46 Missing in Venezuela|date=2008-02-21|accessdate=2008-02-21|publisher=Associated Press via Google News] The wreckage was discovered a day later with no survivors.

Flight history

Mérida, a university and tourist town located high in the Andes mountains, is surrounded by higher terrain, with night flights prohibited at the nearby Alberto Carnevalli Airport. On February 21, 2008, flight 518 was the last scheduled flight out of the airport, departing at about 17:00 local time.Shortly after take-off, the ATR 42-300 twin-turboprop slammed into a sheer convert|13000|ft|m|sing=on rock wall called "Indian Face" (Spanish: "La Cara del Indio"). No distress calls were received from the aircraft prior to impact. [http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-32111620080223 Rescuers find Venezuela plane crash black boxes] , Reuters, Feb 24, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.] [http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/24/news/Venezuela-Plane-Crash.php Venezuela begins recovering bodies from Andean plane crash] , The Associated Press, February 24, 2008. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.]

Crash site

Antonio Rivero, national director of civil defense, said rescuers had identified the site of the crash in the south-western state of Mérida. Unión Radio cited civil defense regional chief, Gerardo Rojas, as saying that rescue crews were racing to the poorly-accessible crash site in the Andes Mountains. [cite news|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/wreckage-of-venezuelan-airliner-spotted_10020199.html | title=Wreckage of Venezuelan airliner spotted |date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-02-22|publisher=Thaindian.com] Mountain villagers reported hearing a huge noise they thought could be a crash soon after the disappearance and loss of contact with flight 518. According to local police, the wreckage of the aircraft has been located at Páramo de Mucuchíes, in the sector of Collao del Cóndor, Páramo Piedra Blanca, near the Laguna de la Perlada. The search operation was conducted from the regional hub city of Barinas in western Venezuela.

Air-rescue services said that the twin-turboprop ATR 42 crashed convert|10|km|mi from the mountain city of Mérida after take-off. Searchers spotted the wreckage of the plane carrying 43 passengers and 3 crew members in the mountains of western Venezuela on Friday, February 22. Fire-fighter Sgt. Jhonny Paz said officials believe there are no survivors and are sending a helicopter to the site of the accident after a refueling stop. "The impact was direct. The aircraft is practically pulverized," he told the Venezuelan television station Globovisión. [cite news|url=http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jb0FRvssmaa9sqaM8Fqre6bIkMpAD8UVDL903| title=Plane Crash Site in Venezuela Found |date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-02-22|publisher=Associated Press|accessdate=2008-02-28] At the national civil aeronautical institute, General Ramón Vinas confirmed that, "by the type of impact, we presume that there are no survivors".

Passengers

As search-and-rescue activities were underway, local media published the passenger list of Sánta Barbara Airlines flight 518. [cite news|url=http://www.laverdad.com/detallenew.asp?idcat=10&idnot=68927| title=Passenger Manifest of Santa Barbara Airlines flight 508 |date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-02-22|publisher=laverdad.com]

Most of the passengers were Venezuelan; three Colombians and an American died in the crash. [" [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7261106.stm Venezuela crash data boxes found] ." BBC, 2008-02-23. Retrieved on 2008-02-28.]

Among the passengers were an anti-Chávez political analyst, Italo Luongo,cite news|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5juSV3gb4SkWKbblKA-rYTp6j0CoA| title= 'No survivors' in Venezuelan plane crash: officials |date=2008-02-22|accessdate=2008-02-22|publisher=Agence France Presse (AFP)] [cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-03-16-venezuela-chavez_x.htm|title=Chavez followers get paramilitary training|publisher=USA Today|date=2005-03-16|accessdate=2008-02-29] and Alexander Quintero, the mayor of Mucuchíes, a small town in the state of Mérida, Quintero's 11-year old son, and two relatives of federal under-minister for civic security Tarek El Alssami.cite web | title = Venezuela Plane Crash Kills 46|publisher= washingtonpost.com | url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/22/AR2008022200219.html?nav=rss_world | accessdate = 2008-02-24 |author=Rueda, Jorge |work=The Associated Press |date = 2008-02-22] Vivian Guarch, a 53-year-old United States citizen and executive for Stanford Financial Group Bank, died in the crash.

Aircraft information

* [http://www.jetphotos.net/showphotos.php?regsearch=YV1449&view=true "ATR-42-300 YV1449" pictures from jetphotos.net]
* [http://new.myaviation.net/search/search.php?view=&regnr=YV1449 "ATR-42-300 YV1449" pictures from myaviation.net]
* [http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080221-0 "ATR-42-300 YV1449" air-crash info from aviation-safety.net]

References

External links

* [http://www.noticias.com.ve/nacionales/6-sucesos/60-venezuela-consternada-por-la-tragica-muerte-de-46-personas-que-volaban-de-merida-hacia-caracas Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518]


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