Conviasa Flight 2350
ATR 42-320 · Crashed on approach
From Del Caribe Santiago Mariño International Airport (PMV) to General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport (PZO)
Event
- NTSB case
- DCA10WA101
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 17 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 51
- Survivors
- 34
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 34
- 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
- Airline
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
ATR 42-320
- Flight
- V02350
- Aircraft type
- ATR 42
- 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
- YV1010
- Operator
- Conviasa
- Onboard fatalities
- 17
- Route
- From Del Caribe Santiago Mariño International Airport (PMV)To General Manuel Carlos Piar International Airport (PZO)
- 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., 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
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
- Personnel issues › Miscellaneous
- Personnel issues › Psychological
- Personnel issues › Experience/knowledge
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
On 13 September 2010, Conviasa Flight 2350, an ATR 42 on a domestic passenger service from Porlamar to Ciudad Guayana, Venezuela, crashed shortly before landing, killing 17 of the 51 people on board; 34 others were injured.
Accident
The flight crew reported control problems shortly before landing at Manuel Carlos Piar Guayana Airport, in the Puerto Ordaz neighbourhood of Ciudad Guayana. Witnesses said that the aircraft struck power lines at low altitude at 09:59 local time, and went down in an industrial area where materials used in a steel mill were stored. Workers from the steel mill and firefighters pulled the survivors from the burning wreckage.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
Assistance in the investigation was given by the French Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA). The BEA provided two investigators, and Avions de Transport Regional (ATR) provided three technical advisers.
On 30 December 2014 the Ministry of Water and Air Transport of Venezuela published that the probable cause of the accident was the malfunction of the central crew alerting system with erroneous activation of the stall warning system.
Contributing factors were weaknesses of the flight crew's resource management, their loss of situational awareness, their inadequate coordination during the decision-making process to deal with abnormal situations in flight, their lack of knowledge of the stall warning system, and their mishandling of the flight controls.
The aircraft was flown with two abnormal conditions, activation of the stall warning system and the decoupling of the elevators of the aircraft, requiring a constant effort by the pilot in command to maintain control of the aircraft.
There was improper handling of the aircraft in the final phase of landing, which led the commander to exercise great effort on controlling the flight before impact.
The commander's defective emotional and cognitive skill level, lack of leadership, and errors of judgment led him to make unwise decisions.
Both pilots showed confusion, poor coordination in the cockpit, serious failures in communication, lack of knowledge of the aircraft systems and loss of situational awareness.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Conviasa Flight 2350” (revision 1359502306, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
NTSB narrative
On September 13, 2010, a Venezuelan ATR-42 operated by Conviasa Airlines crashed near Cuidad Guayana, Venezuela. The accident is being investigated by the government of Venezuela and the Safety Board is assisting with flight recorder readouts.
All inquiries should be directed to:
Direccion de la Junta Investigadora de Accidentes de Aviacion Civil Av. Francisco Miranda Torre MINFRA, Piso 20 Chacao, Caracas 1060 Venezuela
Website: www.infraestructura.gob.ve
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
Wikipedia article: Conviasa Flight 2350
- Article
- Conviasa Flight 2350
- Revision
- 1359502306 · 2026-06-15 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q5166546
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record DCA10WA101
- Event ID
- 20100930X30111
- Case number
- DCA10WA101
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Conviasa Flight 2350" (page 28810965, revision 1359502306); merged with NTSB case DCA10WA101 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record DCA10WA101
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Conviasa Flight 2350" and NTSB case DCA10WA101, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.