Avior Airlines Boeing 737-200, V495T aircraft makes emergency landing in Maiquetía

An Avior Airlines plane, Boeing 737-200, registration plate YV495T, covering the Maiquetía-Aruba route, made an emergency landing at 3:50 minutes in the afternoon on Wednesday at the Simón Bolívar International Airport, in Vargas state, north Venezuela, after a loss of hydraulic fluid pressure, said the Ministry of Transport and Communication.

Lorllys Ramos, the president of the Board of Inquiry into Civil Aviation Accidents (Jiaac), reported that five minutes after takeoff, the plane crew declared an emergency and had to land hastily in Maiquetía Caracas.

She said that the 37 passengers that were aboard were evacuated unharmed.

Ramos stressed that this incident did not result in the suspension of operations.

Jiaac experts are to conduct the relevant investigations to determine the causes of the incident, added Ramos.

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