Airplane Crash in Venezuala Kills 160
CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – A Colombian jet traveling from Panama to Martinique crashed in Venezuela on Tuesday after its engines failed, killing all 160 passengers and crew in one of the country’s worst air disasters, officials said.
The West Caribbean Airways MD-82 aircraft was en route to the French Caribbean island when it began to have engine trouble and attempted to divert to an airport in Venezuela. It crashed at a cattle farm near Venezuela’s border with Colombia, authorities said.
“Unfortunately, there were no survivors from this accident,” Col. Francisco Paz, head of Venezuela’s National Civil Aviation Institute, told local television.
Most of the passengers were local government officials in Martinique who had been on holiday with their families, an official at the Fort-de-France airport in Martinique said. He said the 152 passengers included one baby and four children.
Source: Reuters.
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