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Avensa Flight 358 was a scheduled airline flight from
Maturín Airport Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...
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 McDonnell Douglas was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produ ...
in 1967.


Accident

On 22 December 1974, the
McDonnell Douglas DC-9 The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced by the developer company as the Douglas DC-9 until August 1967 and then by McDonnell Douglas. After ...
, with 69 passengers and 6 crew on board, took off on runway 05 from Maturín Airport. Five minutes after takeoff the pilots declared an emergency to the control tower. The pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed from the city of
Maturín Maturín () is a city in Venezuela, the capital of the Venezuelan state of Monagas and a centre for instrumental exploration and development of the petroleum industry in Venezuela. The metropolitan area of Maturín has a population of 401,384 inha ...
, Venezuela. All 75 on board the flight perished.


Cause

Venezuelan authorities and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident. The cause of the accident was not determined, though an elevator malfunction was considered.


In popular culture

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


See also

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External links

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg-tNN06lXs http://www.volarenvenezuela.com/vev/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1236 Aviation accidents and incidents in Venezuela Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas DC-9 Avensa accidents and incidents Aviation accidents and incidents in 1974 1974 in Venezuela December 1974 events in South America 1974 disasters in Venezuela Airliner accidents and incidents with an unknown cause {{Venezuela-transport-stub