West Caribbean Airways Flight 708

When

16 Aug 2005

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

10.07° N, 72.55° W

Description

plane crash in 2005

Deaths

160

Participants

160

Cause

stall, pilot error

2005 aviation accident in Venezuela

West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a charter flight that crashed in northwest Venezuela in the early hours of 16 August 2005, killing all 160 passengers and crew on board. The plane, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, registration HK-4374X, was en route from Tocumen International Airport (PTY) in Panama City, Panama, to Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport in Fort-de-France, Martinique.

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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 “West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 crashes into a mountain in Venezuela, killing 160 passengers and crew”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Turkish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “West Caribbean Airways'in 708 sefer sayılı uçuşunu yapan HK-4374X kuyruk numaralı uçak Venezuela'da bir dağa çarptı”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “На территории Венесуэлы во время урагана разбился самолёт McDonnell Douglas MD-82 колумбийской авиакомпании West Caribbean Airways, погибли 160 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vuelo 708 de West Caribbean, un avión Boeing MD-82 se estrella en la población de Machiques, Venezuela y mueren sus 160 ocupantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ウェスト・カリビアン航空の旅客機がベネズエラ西部で墜落。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page