Viasa Flight 742
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viasa-flight-742-171-2922466
title:
Viasa Flight 742
text:
Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Miami International Airport with an intermediate stopover in Maracaibo, Venezuela that crashed on 16 March 1969. After taking off on the Maracaibo to Miami leg, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 hit a series of power lines before crashing into the La Trinidad section of Maracaibo. All 84 people on board perished, as well as 71 on the ground. The crash was the world's deadliest civil air disaster at the time.
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1969 plane crash in Maracaibo, Venezuela
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viasa_Flight_742
date created:
2009-10-23T01:33:09Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T05:27:29Z
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