Aircraft Crashes Record Office
Bureau d'Archives des Accidents Aéronautiques

Accident description
   
     
Date & Time
 
17NOV2006 at 1143LT
Type of Aircraft
 
Operator
 
Tourism Aéreo Amazonas
Registration
 
YV-1220
Location
 
Ocumare del Tuy
   
Flight number
   
Schedule
 
Ocumare del Tuy - Puerto Ayacucho
 
Construction number
 
Year of manufacture
 
     
Crew on board
 
1
Pax on board
 
0
Crew fatalities
 
1
Pax fatalities
 
0
Other fatalities
 
2
Total fatalities
 
3

Circumstances
   
 
Shortly after takeoff from Ocumare del Tuy airport, the pilot encountered engine problem and tried to make an emergency landing in a city center's avenue. Prior to landing, the single engine aircraft hit telephone line and crashed on an autobus. The pilot ans 2 occupants of the bus were killed. The pilot was performing a cargo flight to Puerto Ayacucho.
   


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