Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 21 FEB 2008 |
| Time: | ca 17:00 |
| Type: | ATR-42-300 |
| Operator: | Santa Bárbara Airlines |
| Registration: | YV1449 |
| C/n / msn: | 028 |
| First flight: | 1986 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 3 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 43 / Occupants: 43 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 46 / Occupants: 46 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Location: | ca 10 km NW of Mérida-A Carnevalli Airport (MRD) (Venezuela)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Mérida-A Carnevalli Airport (MRD/SVMD), Venezuela |
| Caracas-Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS/SVMI), Venezuela | |
| Flightnumber: | 518 |
Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 departed Mérida (MRD) at 16:59 on a domestic flight to Caracas. Shortly after take-off the airplane flew into the side of a mountain at a height of 4100 m (13.400 feet).
Weather reported about the time of takeoff (21:30 UTC) was:
SVMD 212100Z 29008KT 9999 SCT013 BKN100 XX/XX Q1018=
SVMD 212200Z 25005KT 9999 BKN013 OVC100 20/12 Q1021=
Events:
Sources:
» NotiSAR
» Instituto Nacional de Aeronáutica Civil (INAC)
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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 Mérida-A Carnevalli Airport to Caracas-Simón Bolívar International Airport as the crow flies is 507 km (317 miles).
Distance from Mérida-A Carnevalli Airport to Caracas-Simón Bolívar International Airport as the crow flies is 507 km (317 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.
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