IATA : YH
ICAO : WCW
Call Sign : WEST
Country:
Colombia
Facts about West Caribbean Airways
West Caribbean Airways was an airline based in Medellín, Colombia. It
operated largely domestic services, with its main base at Olaya
Herrera Airport (EOH), Medellín.
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a West Caribbean Airways charter
flight which crashed in a mountainous region in northwest Venezuela on
the morning of Tuesday, 16 August 2005, killing
Colombian West Caribbean Airways in Perijá Mountain, northwestern
Venezuela, arrived early on Wednesday in Maracaibo, capital city of
Zulia state.
A spokesperson for West Caribbean Airways said on Tuesday the plane
that crashed in Venezuela, killing all 160 people aboard, had its tail
cone drop off last month during a flight
West Caribbean Airways had recently leased the aircraft from MK
Aviation, Inc., a closely held Panamanian company and another party to
the suit.
West Caribbean Airways was a regional airline based in Medellin,
Colombia.
The airline ceased operation in September 2005 following two crashes.
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West Caribbean Airways cambió su imagen corporativa, sin embargo, en
el medio las cosas ya no parecían tan claras para la Aerolínea.
The Medellin, Colombia-based West Caribbean Airways SA jet was en
route to Martinique from Panama when it came down in the Sierra de
Perija on the Venezuelan-Colombian border, according to Venezuela's
The West Caribbean Airways plane was headed from Panama to Martinique
when its pilot reported trouble with both engines to the Caracas air
control tower just after 7am, said Francisco
West Caribbean Airways was founded in 1998 as a charter airline, but
it was bought by a group of Colombian businessmen in 2001 and
re-launched as a low-cost
West Caribbean Airways has a record of other mechanical problems and
financial troubles, but airline officials insisted they did not cut
corners on safety.
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West Caribbean Airways MD-82 that crashed in Venezuela last August.
Medellín-based West Caribbean Airways started as a charter service in
1998. It specializes in flights to San Andrés in the Caribbean, parts
of the Colombian mainland and Central America.
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Aircraft:
West Caribbean Airways
ATR 42-320
Location:
West Caribbean Airways flight from Panama to Martinique were residents
of the island territory, which is part of France.
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 is
the 20th loss of an MD-80, since the aircraft was brought into service
in 1980 and the deadliest air disaster in the history of
A rescue worker searches among the wreckage of West Caribbean Airways MD-82 aircraft in Machiques
Jorge Silva / Reuters A rescue worker searches the wreckage of a West
Caribbean Airways MD-82 jetliner in Machiques, about 100 miles
West Caribbean Airways, based in the Colombian city of Medellin, has
now been involved in two crashes this year.
The crashes of a West Caribbean Airways MD-82 in Venezuela yesterday
and a Helios Airways Boeing 737-300 in Greece on Sunday killed 281
people.
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Known as: West Caribbean Airways
Name: West Caribbean Airways, S.A.
March, a West Caribbean Airways Let L-410 aircraft crashed in
Colombia, killing eight. In Caracas, Cihan Aircraft was used in
short-range and medium-range flights.