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    Viasa Flight 742 was an international, scheduled passenger flight from Caracas, Venezuela to Miami International Airport with an intermediate stopover...
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  • Flight 742 may refer to: Viasa Flight 742, crashed on 16 March 1969 TWA Flight 742, crashed on 28 August 1969 Iran Air Flight 742, made an emergency landing...
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  • International Airways), or VIASA for short, was the Venezuelan flag carrier airline between 1960 and 1997. It was headquartered in the Torre Viasa in Caracas. Launched...
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    that point in time, but was surpassed by Viasa Flight 742 in 1969. One of those who perished in the flight 217 crash was Olga Antonetti, a former Miss...
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    the death toll would not be surpassed until the March 1969 crash of Viasa Flight 742, which crashed on takeoff and killed all 84 people on board the aircraft...
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    incident. The loss of Flight 58 was the deadliest civil aviation disaster at the time, surpassing the 1969 crash of Viasa Flight 742 in Venezula, and remained...
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    Airways Flight 548 Delta Air Lines Flight 1141 LAPA Flight 3142 Lufthansa Flight 540 Northwest Airlines Flight 255 Spanair Flight 5022 Viasa Flight 742 108...
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    Network. 3 December 1972. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN Accident Description (Viasa-742)". Aviation Safety Network. 16 March 1969. Retrieved 27 May 2013. "ASN...
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    problems Viasa Flight 742, Venezuela's previous deadliest aviation disaster Air France Flight 447, Indonesia Air Asia Flight 8501, Yemenia Flight 626, British...
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    fatalities based on the body count indicates a higher number of fatalities. Viasa Flight 742, another crash in which a small twinjet aircraft (a McDonnell Douglas...
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  • following a possible bomb explosion, killing all 78 on board. May 30 – Viasa Flight 897, a Douglas DC-8, crashed shortly after taking off from Lisbon Portela...
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    during a storm, killing 217 people. On 16 March 1969, a DC-9 operating Viasa Flight 742 crashed in the Venezuelan city of Maracaibo. A total of 155 people...
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  • Berlín, Uruguay at a nearly perpendicular angle, killing all aboard. Viasa Flight 742, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that crashed near Maracaibo Airport on...
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    with no injuries to the 49 passengers and crew. On March 16, 1969, Viasa Flight 742, a DC-9-32, crashed into the La Trinidad neighborhood of Maracaibo...
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  • renamed in 1991 after former owner Antonio Herrera Gutiérrez who died in Viasa Flight 742 when the plane crashed shortly after takeoff. "El "Rey" David Concepción...
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    This airport construction was accelerated due to the accident of Viasa Flight 742 on 16 March 1969, resulting in the death of 155 people and the closure...
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  • in one of the worst aircraft tragedies in Venezuelan history, after Viasa Flight 742 crashed while taking off, killing all 84 aboard and 71 on the ground...
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  • including its name, and becomes the new Golden West Airlines. March 16 Viasa Flight 742, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30, is unable to gain altitude after takeoff...
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  • returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module. March 16 – Viasa Flight 742 crashes into a neighborhood in Maracaibo, Venezuela, shortly after...
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    Paris-Orly Airport (ORY)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 22 October 2020. "Flight of Excelsior – Captain Emilio Carranza Rodriguez". Retrieved 2 July 2014...
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    ground fatalities blamed on Flight 11, the number of people aboard the hijacked flight was 92. The death toll of Flight 11 thus comes out to approximately...
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  • article YV-C-AVD McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 Viasa Flight 742 YV-C-AVM McDonnell Douglas DC-9-14 Avensa Flight 358 YV-C-EVH Fairchild F-27 1962 Avensa Fairchild...
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    Crown winner; in Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture All 84 people on board VIASA Airlines Flight 742 were killed, along with 71 residents of the Venezuelan city of...
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  • Trans World Airlines 785 Tyrolean Airways 791 VARIG Brasil 792 VASP 793 VIASA 794 Vietnam Airlines 795 Virgin Atlantic 796 Western Airlines 797 Widerøe...
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