Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 · Andean Region
On February 21, 2008, Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 (Andean Region). 46 people died.
- Date
- February 21, 2008
- Place
- Andean Region
- Operator
- SBA Airlines
- Killed
- 46
- Position
- 8.655°N, 71.225°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q3087193
From Wikipedia
Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 was an ATR 42–300 twin-turboprop aircraft, registration YV1449, operating as a scheduled domestic flight from Mérida, Venezuela, to Caracas that crashed into the side of a mountain on 21 February 2008, shortly after take-off. There were 43 passengers on board, with a crew consisting of two pilots and a flight attendant. The wreckage was discovered a day later with no survivors. It was the deadliest aviation accident involving an ATR 42 until Trigana Air Flight 267 crashed in Papua, Indonesia, in 2015 with 54 deaths.
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