ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336004
| Date: | Friday 15 December 1950 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | AVENSA |
| Registration: | YV-C-AVU |
| MSN: | 4432 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 31 / Occupants: 31 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Páramo Las Siete Lagunas -
 Venezuela
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi |
| Departure airport: | Mérida-A Carnevalli Airport (MRD/SVMD) |
| Caracas-Maiquetía Airport (CCS/SVMI) |
The C-47 aircraft was chartered to fly 27 school boys and a medical student from Mérida to Caracas, Venezuela. The aircraft took off at 12:13 and followed the usual route through the Chama Valley. In poor weather the aircraft impacted a mountainside at 2800 m, killing all aboard.
Sources:
Accidentes de aviación en Mérida
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