Seven Perish in Venezuelan Military Plane Disaster
A diminutive military aircraft carrying members of an indigenous community back to their Amazonian homeland tragically crashed in the jungle on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of seven individuals aboard, as reported by Venezuela’s Ministry of Defense.
Three military personnel, including the pilot, managed to survive the mishap, which was attributed to a technical malfunction in the Amazonas state, located in southern Venezuela.
The aircraft was transporting at least ten individuals, encompassing several members of the Yanomami indigenous community, the flight crew, and medical personnel, according to official sources.
Among the deceased was the co-pilot.
The aircraft is part of an air force unit dedicated to supporting indigenous communities in the remote Amazonian region.
This calamity unfolded mere days after a passenger aircraft, carrying nearly fifty people, crashed in an isolated area of Russia’s far eastern Amur region last Thursday, with authorities reporting no immediate signs of survivors.
The ill-fated aircraft, a twin-propeller Antonov-24 operated by Angara Airlines, was en route to the town of Tynda from the city of Blagoveshchensk when it vanished from radar at approximately 1:00 p.m. local time (0400 GMT).
The Venezuelan plane crash adds to a series of aviation disasters recorded within a span of less than two months across various global locales.
On July 21, at least twenty-seven individuals, predominantly children, lost their lives following the crash of a Bangladeshi fighter jet into a school in the capital city of Dhaka, as stated by a government official.
The majority of the victims were schoolchildren who had recently been dismissed from class when the Chinese-manufactured F-7 BJI aircraft collided with the Milestone School and College.
This catastrophe, marking the nation’s most lethal aviation accident in decades, also resulted in over one hundred seventy injuries.
On July 1, an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner, heavily laden with fuel for a long-haul flight to London, erupted into a fiery blaze shortly after takeoff, claiming the lives of over two hundred individuals.
