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Jet with 152 passengers crashes in Venezuela Minister: Survivors ‘unlikely’ on flight from Panama to Martinique BREAKING NEWS
MSNBC News Services
Updated: 9:18 a.m. ET Aug. 16, 2005
CARACAS, Venezuela - A passenger plane crashed in remote western Venezuela with 152 passengers aboard early Tuesday, and it was unclear whether anyone survived.
Interior Minister Jesse Chacon said that based on reports from military helicopters and planes flying over the area, “it’s very unlikely there could be survivors.”
The West Caribbean Airways MD-80 jet was headed from Panama to Martinique in the Caribbean when its pilot reported engine trouble to the Caracas airport, said Francisco Paz, president of the National Aviation Institute.
Airport authorities lost radio contact with the plane later in the area of Machiques, he said.
“Residents in the area said they heard an explosion,” Paz said. “Air rescue teams are traveling to the area right now by air and by land.”
Engine trouble reportedHe said the pilot reported trouble with both engines to the Caracas air control tower just after 3 a.m. local time.
Chacon said the aircraft had changed route to request a landing at Chinita Airport in the western Venezuelan city of Maracaibo, but crashed in the Sierra de Perija mountains near the small town of Machiques.
Rescue officials said their efforts were hampered by heavy cloud and rainfall in the area.
“When it was flying over Venezuelan airspace, they had problems with one engine and then with another engine, and at that moment it went down,” Chacon said.
Earlier airline crashThe plane had been chartered for tourists, and 152 passengers were listed on the flight plan, Paz said. It wasn’t immediately clear how many crew members accompanied them.
West Caribbean Airways, based in Colombia, last March saw one of its passenger planes crash as it left the airport on Old Providence Island off Colombia. The L-410 aircraft's two crew and six of the 12 passengers were killed.
The airline operates three jets from the MD-80 series, two MD-81s and one MD-82. It was not clear which one crashed.
The MD-80 series was first built in 1980 by McDonnell Douglas, which was later acquired by Boeing. Production ended in December 1999.
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