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Accident | |
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Date | 3 November 1980 |
Summary | Crash during training flight |
Site | Caracas, Venezuela |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Convair 880 |
Operator | Latin Carga |
Registration | YV-145C |
Flight origin | Simón Bolívar International Airport, Caracas, Venezuela |
Destination | Tocumen International Airport, Panama City, Panama[1] |
Occupants | 4 |
Crew | 4 |
Fatalities | 4 |
Survivors | 0 |
On 3 November 1980, a Latin Carga Convair 880 crashed in Caracas, Venezuela.[2]
Latin Carga was a Venezuelan cargo airline. Most of the airline's aircraft were small turbo-props, but it later obtained two used jet airliners.[2]
The aircraft involved was a Convair CV-880F, (registered as YV-145C, with serial number 22-00-64) built in 1962.[2]
Four crew members took off from Simón Bolivar International Airport on November 3, 1980, on a training flight to Panama. Soon after take-off, the plane plummeted and crashed at the end of the runway, bursting into flames and causing the deaths of all 4 occupants. The aircraft also transported all the equipment and gear of English musician and songwriter Peter Frampton, who was touring in Latin America at the time.[2][3][1]
See also
- Delta Air Lines Flight 9877 - a similar training crash involving a Delta Air Lines airplane.
References
- ^ a b "Peter Frampton Reunited With 'Best Guitar' After 31 Years". Archive.nytimes.com. 3 January 2012.
- ^ a b c d Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident Convair CV-880-22-2 YV-145C Caracas-Simon Bolivar Airport (CCS)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ "Crash of a Convair CV-880-22-2 in Caracas: 4 killed". www.baaa-acro.com. Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives. Retrieved 4 November 2021.