Margarita air disaster
Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Vickers Viscount · Controlled flight into terrain
From San Luis Airport, Cumaná, Venezuela to Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi Airport, Porlamar, Venezuela
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
- 48 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- 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
- 0
- 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-AMX
- Operator
- Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela
- Onboard fatalities
- 48
- Route
- From San Luis Airport, Cumaná, VenezuelaTo Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi Airport, Porlamar, Venezuela
Approximate · Estimated position: Porlamar, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Margarita air disaster occurred during the approach of an Aeropostal aircraft to Luisa Cáceres de Arismendi Airport in the city of Porlamar on Margarita Island on 14 August 1974, killing 47 people on board and leaving as the sole survivor the co-pilot of this flight, Iván Magallanes, who died two weeks later from the severity of his injuries.
Similarity to Avensa Flight 530
On 25 February 1962 Avensa Flight 530 crashed into Cerro El Piache with no survivors on board. Like the Aeropostal Viscount, it encountered poor weather conditions at the time of its takeoff.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Tragedia aérea de Margarita” (revision 175168357, 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: Tragedia aérea de Margarita
- Article
- Tragedia aérea de Margarita
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175168357 · 2026-09-03 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q60845236
- 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 "Tragedia aérea de Margarita" (page 8797044, revision 175168357), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- operator is an airline according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.
- The Spanish article contradicts itself on the fatalities: its text says 47 on board were killed and the co-pilot survived; its infobox (used here) gives 48 fatalities and no survivors.