MIA08WA060 · Cessna T210
Cessna T210 · Accident
From San Juan de Los Morros Airport (SVJM) to an unrecorded destination
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Event
- NTSB case
- MIA08WA060
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- API-reported fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- General aviation
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna T210
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 210
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- YV-1221 Narrative disagrees
- Operator
- Alejandro Rivera
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From San Juan de Los Morros Airport (SVJM), San Juan MorrosTo not recorded
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
On December 9, 2007, about 1730 Atlantic standard time, a Cessna T210, of Venezuelan registration, YV-1221, collided with electrical power lines near Guarico, Venezuela. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and flight plan information is unknown. The pilot and passenger received fatal injuries. The aircraft was destroyed. The flight originated from the San Juan de Los Morros Airport, Guarico, Venezuela, earlier that day, at an unknown time.
Information from the Venezuelan government states that the airplane collided with high tensioned electrical power lines. The airplane then impacted the ground and a post impact fire ensued, consuming the airplane.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Venezuela. Further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviación Ministerio de Infraestructura Republica Bolivariana de Venezuela Av. Francisco de Miranda Torre MINFRA, piso-20 Caracas, Republica de Bolivariana de Venezuela
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information released by or obtained for the Government of Venezuela.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record MIA08WA060
- Event ID
- 20080229X00250
- Case number
- MIA08WA060
- Dataset
- historical-pre2008
- Source SHA-256
- 89e2df6d848e7ab3b42e7d7c7a03ff403303057a26ca04c95b3ea67201c3ce74
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: deba7e348bcb36d1a244c814f44b88196876dcef4ac524882f3c813ebb806d27; retrieved 2026-09-20T16:03:52.198Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: registration. The narrative states "a Cessna T210, of Venezuelan registration, YV-1221, collided with electrical power lines".