San Juan de Manapiare – Puerto Ayacucho

On September 16, 2005 at 04:00 PM, San Juan de Manapiare – Puerto Ayacucho experienced a crash involving Cessna 207 Skywagon/Stationair, operated by Wayumi Aero-Taxi - Linea Aéreo Taxi Wayumi, with the event recorded near San Juan de Manapiare Amazonas.

The flight was categorized as charter/taxi (non scheduled revenue flight) and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 3, passenger fatalities: 3, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Few minutes after takeoff from San Juan de Manapiare, while flying in marginal weather conditions, the single engine aircraft impacted a rocky face of Mt Morrocoy located about 8 km west of San Juan de Manapiare. The aircraft was totally destroyed by impact forces and all four occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration YV-412C, MSN 207-0508, year of manufacture 1979.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 5.3282°, -66.0569°.