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Santa Bárbara Airlines flight 518 on the Mérida-Caracas route in Venezuela, when it fatally crashed on February 21, 2008, in the Andean mountains that surround the city of Mérida a few minutes after takeoff, there were no survivors.

FAILURE IN THE GYROSCOPES

As the equipment was not coupled, the aircraft's gyroscopes did not emit any digital information, which for the pilots meant going out in the dark as revealed by the voice box.

BAD TAKE OFF

Debido a la aproximación del vuelo de Avior y que comprometía la salida a la hora estipulada del Vuelo de Santa Bárbara, el piloto Aldino Garanito y el copiloto Dennis Ferreira apresuraron su rodaje a pista, sin cumplir con los tres minutos reglamentarios de espera que indica el fabricante del avión para que los equipos de la aeronave se acoplen desde el momento del encendido.

COLLISION WITH THE MOUNTAINS.

Once they took off, the pilots decided to let the Avior plane fly close to the southern mountain range (Sierra Nevada), so that it could land, while the Santa Bárbara plane flew close to the north mountain range (Cara del Indio). Once in the air, they began the turn to the right very close to the northern mountain range, and not having the gyroscopes still working, they possibly encountered a cloud that disoriented them spatially, which led them to collide with the mountain.