source:
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/08/16/venezuela.crash/index.html
BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- A Colombian airliner carrying 160 people crashed
Tuesday in a remote area of western Venezuela, aviation officials said.
No survivors have been found.
A spokeswoman for West Caribbean Airways, based in Medellin, Colombia,
told CNN there were 152 passengers and eight crew members on board, making
it the deadliest plane crash in Venezuela's history.
The MD-82 aircraft left Tocumen International Airport south of Panama
City around 1 a.m. local time, headed for Fort de France, Martinique,
according to Panamanian aviation officials.
Most of the passengers were from Martinique, according to civil aeronautics
officials in Colombia, and the crew was Colombian.
The flight had been chartered by tourists in Martinique, a French possession
in the Caribbean.
Venezuelan officials said the jetliner's pilots reported engine problems
shortly before contact was lost with the aircraft around 3 a.m. ET.
Tomas Paredes with Panama's aviation agency told CNN in a phone interview
the pilots had asked to descend from 31,000 feet to 14,000 feet because
both engines were having problems.
That was the last communication from the aircraft, Paredes said.
Explosion reported
Some residents in Venezuela's Zulia state reported hearing a loud
explosion early in the morning, near the city of Machiques and Lake
Maracaibo, local law enforcement officials said. The crash site is not
far from the border with Colombia.
Search and rescue crews are removing bodies from the site of the crash,
officials said, and will move them to a morgue.
Local officials said there are no survivors.
At least 150 workers are at the crash site -- including national guard
members and firefighters -- according to the Venezuelan aviation
authority.
Reporter Jeidis Osechas of the Venezuelan television network Globovision
told CNN from the scene of the crash there was still smoke coming from the
heavily forested region, and the wreckage appeared to be strewn over a
large area.
French President Jacques Chirac released a statement expressing his sorrow
about the accident that claimed the lives of several French citizens.
"The president expresses, on behalf of all French citizens, his saddest
condolences and his deep compassion for the families and friends of the
victims," the statement said.
Chirac said he was sending his overseas territories minister to Martinique
immediately, and the French Foreign Ministry has set up a crisis office to
deal with the accident.
A smaller aircraft owned by West Caribbean Airways crashed as it took off
in Colombia in March, killing eight people and injuring eight others.
Previous crashes
The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 series has been involved in 11 fatal
crashes since it went into service in 1980 -- seven involved the MD-82
model.
The deadliest was the December 1, 1981, crash of an Inex-Adria Airways flight
that went down in Ajaccio, France, killing all 180 people on board. Human
error was found to be the cause of that crash.
Boeing acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997 and ended production of the MD-80
series in 1999. The plane is still in use around the world.
The two companies built 1,191 MD-80s.
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與昨天的事件相比之下，兩起空難似乎是獨立事件。
但是我剛剛想了許久，認為事情可能不單純，單以兩天之內連續
兩架中型客機發生空難，機率似乎是很低。
想想這兩架飛機牽扯的國籍，有些許的關聯，那就是奧運...
埃...希望是我想太多了....
打算明天先把手上的華航放出來走走透透氣 美股又大跌了
埃...濫台股 亞股都很衝了 台股怎麼衝都衝不高....
(抱怨文)
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