Aeropostal Flight 359
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Vickers Viscount · Pilot error
From Alberto Carnevalli Airport (MRD) to Simón Bolívar International Airport (SMR)
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
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
Vickers Viscount
- Aircraft type
- Vickers VISCOUNT
- 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-C-AMV
- Operator
- Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Alberto Carnevalli Airport (MRD)To Simón Bolívar International Airport (SMR)
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
Aeropostal Flight 359 was a flight on the Venezuelan Mérida - Caracas route that crashed into the Páramo de El Canario, in Mérida state, on 25 January 1971, leaving 13 dead and 34 injured. Among the passengers was a group of Stanhome employees who had been taking part in a convention in Mérida.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 359 de Aeropostal” (revision 175341085, 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: Vuelo 359 de Aeropostal
- Article
- Vuelo 359 de Aeropostal
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175341085 · 2026-09-13 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q60844776
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 359 de Aeropostal" (page 8797013, revision 175341085), 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 infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.