1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident

1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident

The aircraft involved in the crash
Accident
Date	25 February 1962
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain
Site	Margarita Island, Venezuela 10°59′N 63°56′W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Fairchild F-27
Operator	Avensa
Registration	YV-C-EVH
Flight origin	Porlamar Airport, Margarita Island, Venezuela
Destination	Cumaná Airport
Passengers	20
Crew	3
Fatalities	23
Injuries	0
Survivors	0

The 1962 Avensa Fairchild F-27 accident occurred on 25 February 1962 when a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner registered YV-C-EVH of Avensa crashed into San Juan mountain on Venezuela's Margarita Island in the Caribbean Sea.^[1] All 20 passengers and three crew were killed.^[1]

Accident

The F-27 was on a scheduled flight from Porlamar Airport to Cumaná Airport, when a few minutes after departure from Portamar, the aircraft impacted San Juan Mountain and was destroyed.

Aircraft

The aircraft, a Fairchild F-27 twin-engined turboprop airliner had been built in the United States in 1958 and delivered new to Avensa on 18 September 1958.^[2]

References

Citations

1. Civil Aviation Authority 1974, p. 5/62
2. Eastwood 1991, p. 217

Bibliography

• World Accident Summary. Civil Aviation Authority (United Kingdom). 1974. ISBN 0-903083-44-2.
• Eastwood, Tony; John Roach (1991). Turbo Prop Airliner Production List. The Aviation Hobby Shop. ISBN 0-907178-32-4.