AVENSA Flight 034
Convair CV-580 · Forced landing in terrain after controlled flight into terrain in initial climb
From Oro Negro Airport, Cabimas, Venezuela to Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS)
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 11
- 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
- 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
- Airline
Convair CV-580
- Aircraft type
- Convair CV-580
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-84C
- Operator
- Avensa
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From Oro Negro Airport, Cabimas, VenezuelaTo Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (CCS)
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
AVENSA Flight 034 (flight number IATA: VE034, ICAO: AVE034, callsign: AVE 034) was a domestic scheduled flight of AVENSA from Cabimas to Caracas. On 28 May 1985 a serious air accident occurred on this flight, when the Convair CV-580 operating it grazed a hill in the initial climb and then had to make a forced landing in a wooded area. Two of the 13 occupants died in the accident.
Accident sequence
The aircraft took off for the flight to Caracas from runway 06. After takeoff from Cabimas-Oro Negro Airport, the aircraft gained height only slowly while approaching rising terrain. About 500 metres beyond the end of the runway it grazed a hill. As a result the aircraft was no longer airworthy, so that an immediate forced landing in the terrain became necessary. The pilots set the aircraft down in a wooded area about 1,500 metres further on. The aircraft was so badly damaged in the accident that it had to be written off as a total loss. Two of the 13 occupants were killed.
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Sources
German Wikipedia article: AVENSA-Flug 034
- Article
- AVENSA-Flug 034
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 257214014 · 2025-06-20 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q133500168
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "AVENSA-Flug 034" (page 13433019, revision 257214014), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.