ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333610
| Date: | Thursday 9 March 1961 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-85-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Linea Aeropostal Venezolana - LAV |
| Registration: | YV-C-AZQ |
| MSN: | 19986 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 23352 hours |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 12 / Occupants: 12 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Páramo Turmal -
 Venezuela
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | San Antonio del Tachira Airport (SVZ/SVSA) |
| Caracas-Maiquetía Airport (CCS/SVMI) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The DC-3 took off from San Antonio del Tachira at 12:30 for a 2h45 min flight to Maiquetia. The plane didn't arrive at the destination and was found to have crashed at Páramo Turmal.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "A navigational error in course of an instrument flight at insufficient altitude caused the accident. Contributing factors were: (1) failure to follow the route San Antonio-Maiquetia as called for by the LAV Operations Manual; (2) the flight took place outside of the route established by the National Airways Division; (3) overconfidence of the pilot in his knowledge of the route; (4) instrument flight which prevented visual checking of the position of the aircraft."
Sources:
ICAO Digest 13 (Circular 69)
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