Accident description
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| Status: | |
| Date: | 17 DEC 1994 |
| Time: | 10:30 |
| Type: | Douglas C-47A-10-DK Dakota 3 |
| Operator: | Servivensa |
| Registration: | YV-761C |
| C/n / msn: | 12476 |
| First flight: | 1944 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 6 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 9 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Cerro Aicha (Venezuela) |
| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| ? |
The left wing of the DC-3 clipped trees on a hillside, causing the aircraft to enter a steep right bank and crash just 2km short of the Cerro Aicha runway 15.
Sources:
» Scramble 189(p.64)
Photos
YV-25CP was sold as N2627Z to Atorie Air in 1982 and re-registered N25CE in 1983 and later returned to Venezuela as YV-761C.
