Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
04MAY2004 at 1145LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Venezuelian Government
Registration
 
YV-O-CBL-7
Location
 
Chimanta Mountains
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Ciudad Bolivar - Uonquén
 
Construction number
 
208-0926
Year of manufacture
 
2001
     
Crew on board
 
2
Pax on board
 
5
Crew fatalities
 
2
Pax fatalities
 
5
Other fatalities
 
0
Total fatalities
 
7

Circumstances
   
 
The aircraft left Ciudad Bolivar at 1016LT for a flight to Uonquén. Inflight, at approximately 1100LT, the pilot reported flying at 11,500 feet in bad weather. Few minutes later, the single engine aircraft struck the Awakapa Tepuy mountain while flying at 7,000 feet. Nobody survived.
   


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