Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518

When

21 Feb 2008

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

8.65° N, 71.23° W

Description

2008 aviation accident in Venezuela

Deaths

46

Injured

0

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

2008 aviation accident in Venezuela

Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 was an 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 21 February 2008, shortly after take-off. There were 43 passengers on board, with a crew consisting of two pilots and a flight attendant. The wreckage was discovered a day later with no survivors.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Read the article

• Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Santa Barbara Airlines Flight 518 is reported missing in Venezuela with 46 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “el vuelo 518 de la compañía venezolana Santa Bárbara Airlines, que cubría el trayecto entre Mérida y Caracas”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ベネズエラ・メリダで、サンタ・バーバラ航空518便（ATR 42-300）が墜落。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page