Cubana de Aviación Flight 310 was a scheduled international flight from

José Martí International Airport José Martí International Airport , sometimes known by its former name Rancho Boyeros Airport, is an international airport located southwest of the centre of Havana, Cuba, and is a hub for Cubana de Aviación and Aerogaviota, and former Latin ...

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

, Cuba, to Arturo Michelena International Airport,

Valencia, Venezuela Valencia () is the capital city of Carabobo State and the third-largest city in Venezuela. The city is an economic hub that contains Venezuela's top industries and manufacturing companies. It is also the largest city in the Valencia-Maracay m ...

, which crashed near

Bejuma Bejuma is a small town in Carabobo State, Venezuela, seat of the Bejuma Municipality. Geography Bejuma is located at 667 metres over sea level. Vegetation and natural resources The municipality of Bejuma lies in the Cordillera La Costa Mont ...

, Venezuela, on 25 December 1999. All 22 people on board were killed.

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a

Yakovlev Yak-42 The Yakovlev Yak-42 (russian: Яковлев Як-42; NATO reporting name: "Clobber") is a 100/120-seat three-engined mid-range passenger jet developed in the mid 1970s to replace the technically obsolete Tupolev Tu-134. It was the first airli ...

D, registration CU-T1285. The aircraft was manufactured in 1991 as msn 4520424914068.,

Accident

The flight had departed

Havana Havana (; Spanish: ''La Habana'' ) is the capital and largest city of Cuba. The heart of the La Habana Province, Havana is the country's main port and commercial center.

, Cuba bound for Simón Bolívar International Airport in Caracas, Venezuela. Due to mudslides and flooding, the flight was diverted to Arturo Michelena International Airport in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Valencian Community, Valencia and the Municipalities of Spain, third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is ...

. The aircraft was held for 40 minutes. The pilots called Air Traffic Control at Valencia Airport to say that they were descending from to to get ready to approach. As Flight 310 started its approach to Valencia Airport the aircraft struck the San Luis Hill. The aircraft crashed near the town of

. All 22 passengers and crew died in the crash, which happened at 20:18

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(00:48, 26 December UTC). The location of the crash was .

Passengers and crew

The nationalities of the victims of Flight 310 were-

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Photo of wreckage
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Aircraft

Accident

Passengers and crew

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