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Avensa Flight 358

An AVENSA DC-9, similar to the aircraft involved in the accident
Accident
Date	22 December 1974
Summary	Loss of control for undetermined reasons
Site	Near Maturín Airport, Maturín, Venezuela
Aircraft
Aircraft type	McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14
Operator	AVENSA
Registration	YV-C-AVM
Flight origin	Maturín Airport, Venezuela
Destination	Simón Bolívar International Airport, Venezuela
Passengers	69
Crew	6
Fatalities	75
Survivors	0

Avensa Flight 358 was a scheduled airline flight from Maturín Airport to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela that crashed on 22 December 1974 killing all 75 people on board.

The aircraft involved was a seven-year-old DC-9-14, which had been delivered to Avensa from McDonnell Douglas in 1967. ^[1]

On 22 December 1974, the McDonnell Douglas DC-9, with 69 passengers and 6 crew on board, took off on runway 05 from Maturín Airport. ^[2] Five minutes after takeoff the pilots declared an emergency to the control tower. The pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed 32 km (20 mi; 17 nmi) from the city of Maturín, Venezuela. ^[2] All 75 on board the flight perished. ^{[2] [3]}

Venezuelan authorities and the United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigated the accident. The cause of the accident was not determined, though an elevator malfunction was considered. ^{[2] [4]}

This accident was briefly featured on the Globovisión channel on 23 February 2008, due to the crash of Santa Bárbara Airlines Flight 518.

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