Date:	Monday 13 September 2010
Time:	09:59
Type:	ATR 42-320
Owner/operator:	Conviasa
Registration:	YV1010
MSN:	371
Year of manufacture:	1994
Total airframe hrs:	27085 hours
Cycles:	29603 flights
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 17 / Occupants: 51
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	13 km SE of Puerto Ordaz Airport (PZO) -   Venezuela
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Porlamar-del Caribe Santiago Mariño International Airport (PMV/SVMG)
Destination airport:	Puerto Ordaz Airport (PZO/SVPR)
Investigating agency:	JIAAC Venezuela
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
An ATR-42-320 passenger plane, registered YV1010, was destroyed in an accident at Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. Forty-seven passengers and four crew members were on board. Seventeen occupants were killed in the accident.
Flight Conviasa 2350 had departed Porlamar-del Caribe Santiago Mariño International Airport (PMV) on a domestic service to Puerto Ordaz Airport (PZO). It came down in an industrial area about 8 km short of runway 07.

PROBABLE CAUSE: The DGPIAAE determined that the most probable cause for the occurrence of the accident was the malfunction of the centralised crew warning system (CCAS/CAC) with erroneous activation of the flight loss of lift warning system, and as a contributing factor, deficiencies in the crew resource management, loss of situational awareness, inadequate coordination during the decision-making process to deal with abnormal situations in flight, ignorance of the loss of lift warning system and inadequate handling of flight controls.

NotiSAR
Colapsan hospitales por heridos de vuelo de Conviasa (El Universal)
Catorce fallecidos por accidente de avión de Conviasa en Sidor (El Nacional)
INAC press release

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


20 January 2006	G-TAWE	Air Wales	0	Glasgow-Prestwick Airport (PIK/EGPK)		min
Misaligned or wrong runway/taxiway takeoff

photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Düsseldorf Airport (DUS/EDDL); May 1998

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