Línea Turística Aereotuy Cessna 208 Caravan crash
Linea Turistica Aereotuy Cessna 208 Caravan · Pilot error and adverse weather conditions
From Canaima Airport (CAJ) to General Tomas de Heres Airport (CBL)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA09WA253
- 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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 12
- 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
- 10
- 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
- Visual Meteorological Cond
Cessna 208 Caravan
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- 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-1181
- Operator
- Línea Turística Aereotuy
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Canaima Airport (CAJ)To General Tomas de Heres Airport (CBL)
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Collision during takeoff/landing
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
Cause areas
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
- Personnel issues › Action/decision
- Personnel issues › Psychological
- Environmental issues › Operating environment
- Organizational issues › Support/oversight/monitoring
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
It was a tourist passenger flight, from Canaima National Park Airport, to Tomás de Heres National Airport; the flight crashed into an embankment at the end of the airport; sadly a child died in the accident and 10 passengers were injured.
Accident
The flight was to take off from Canaima National Park Airport, towards Tomás de Heres National Airport; the flight attempted to take off from the airport in severe weather conditions; that day there was strong wind at the airport, but it was not considered a danger to the aircraft; minutes after carrying out the pre-takeoff check, the aircraft heads to the beginning of the airport's runway, then the flight begins its run on the runway, but when the pilot tries to lift the aircraft, the flight suddenly banks to the right, striking the runway with the wing; the captain manages to put the aircraft on the runway, but the aircraft keeps banking to the right; the captain tries to decelerate, until he finally manages it, but the flight runs off the runway and strikes an embankment at the end of the airport.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The investigators of the Civil Aviation Accident Investigation Board (JIAAC) gave the conclusion on the accident
"The accident occurred as a consequence of the aircraft's inability to carry out an effective takeoff; the aircraft was affected by the tailwind, and the large pools of water that covered part of the runway were a factor that was contributory to the tailwind, and that did not allow the aircraft to accelerate, impacting against the terrain.
It is considered that the most probable cause of the accident was poor management by the crew in command, in the sense of not having carried out the proper planning and analysis, combined with overconfidence and the failure to identify the existing conditions, potentially dangerous at that moment for carrying out the takeoff.
Based on the investigations carried out, we can summarise that there were various causes that contributed to the occurrence of this accident. In this order, we can list the following:
Adverse weather conditions and tailwind associated with the phenomenon.
Erroneous management by the crew in using only the last third of the runway in the prevailing weather conditions at that moment.
Failure of the aerodrome administration to identify and correct deficient runway drainage.
Absence of the Aeronautical Authority for the oversight of operational safety.
Disregard by the crew in command as a whole of the concatenated way in which the factors involved in this event presented themselves.
After all the analysis carried out on the different causes involved in this accident, we can identify the Human Factor as the main Causal Factor, due to the inadequate management of the flight crew in carrying out the takeoff in those conditions.
The physical and material Factor includes everything related to the prevailing weather conditions, the runway conditions and the absence of services provided at the aerodrome by the Aeronautical Authority; all of them are considered contributing factors.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Accidente aéreo del Cessna 208 Caravan de Línea Turística Aereotuy” (revision 171644235, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Accidente aéreo del Cessna 208 Caravan de Línea Turística Aereotuy
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 171644235 · 2026-01-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q112823384
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA09WA253
- Event ID
- 20090420X32315
- Case number
- ERA09WA253
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- es Wikipedia article "Accidente aéreo del Cessna 208 Caravan de Línea Turística Aereotuy" (page 10275215, revision 171644235), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA09WA253 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from NTSB record ERA09WA253
- Map position
- NTSB record ERA09WA253: events decimal 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 ERA09WA253
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- 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 "Línea Turística Aereotuy Cessna 208 Caravan crash" and NTSB case ERA09WA253, 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.