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Global Aviation News Article
August
17, 2005
Associated
Press, "Plane
crash in Venezuela kills 160"
A
chartered jet filled with tourists returning home to the
French Caribbean island of Martinique crashed Tuesday in
western Venezuela, killing all 160 people on board. The
plane plunged to the ground after the pilot reported both
engines had failed, officials said.
Wreckage was strewn
across a remote pasture near Machiques, 400 miles west of Caracas near the border
with Colombia just east of the Sierra de Perija range. From above, only the tail
of the West Caribbean Airways plane could be seen intact amid charred trees.
Rescuers pulled dozens
of bodies from the site and recovered one of the plane's black boxes, said Venezuelan
air force Maj. Javier Perez, the search and rescue chief. He said the cockpit
voice recorder had not been found.
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