What the records say
- When
- 16 Mar 1969
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 10.68° N, 71.63° W
- Description
- 1969 aviation accident
- Deaths
- 84
Viasa Flight 742
1969 aviation accident in Venezuela
Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Miami International Airport, United States with an intermediate stopover in Maracaibo, Venezuela that crashed on 16 March 1969. After taking off on the Maracaibo to Miami leg, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 hit a series of power lines before crashing into the La Trinidad section of Maracaibo.
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- 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 “Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after taking off for Miami”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа DC-9 в Маракайбо”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Venezuela, el Vuelo 742 de Viasa con ruta Caracas-Maracaibo-Miami, se estrelló a los pocos minutos de despegar del Aeropuerto Grano de Oro de Maracaibo”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page