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Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518
Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518 was an ATR 42–300 twin-turboprop aircraft, registration YV1449, operating as a scheduled domestic flight from Mérida, Venezuela to Caracas that crashed into the side of a mountain on 21 February 2008, shortly after takeoff. There were 43 passengers on board, with a crew consisting of two pilots and a flight attendant. The wreckage was discovered a day later with no survivors. It had the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving an ATR 42 until Trigana Air Service
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TV Review.
On February 23, 2008, this accident was reviewed in the program "History of aviation accidents in Venezuela", of the channel Globovision due to the crash of the Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518.
Similarity with the Santa Barbara Airlines flight 518.
On February 21, 2008, Flight 518 from Santa Bárbara Airlines, a ATR 42, crashed against the "Los Conejos" moor, a few minutes after taking off from Alberto Carnevalli Airport Of Mérida (Venezuela). 43 passengers