Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 08 MAR 2005 |
| Time: | 09:33 |
| Type: | Cessna 500 Citation I |
| Operator: | Air Global |
| Registration: | YV-21CP |
| C/n / msn: | 500-0115 |
| First flight: | 1973 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Charallave-Oscar Machado Zuloaga Airport (Venezuela)
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| Phase: | Approach (APR) |
| Nature: | Executive |
| Departure airport: | Maturín-Quiriquire Airport (MUN/SVMT), Venezuela |
| Charallave-Oscar Machado Zuloaga Airport (SVCS), Venezuela |
The first VOR/DME approach to Charallave was abandoned. As the airplane broke through the cloud base at 800 feet during the second attempt to land at runway 28, it was not properly lined up with the runway. To avoid a collision with the control tower, the Citation turned right. The aircraft then crashed and burned.
Sources:
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This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Maturín-Quiriquire Airport to Charallave-Oscar Machado Zuloaga Airport as the crow flies is 403 km (252 miles).
Distance from Maturín-Quiriquire Airport to Charallave-Oscar Machado Zuloaga Airport as the crow flies is 403 km (252 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
