Flight 742 was the first loss of a DC-9-30 , and it remains the deadliest accident involving that type of aircraft . It was also the deadliest accident in Venezuela until West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 ( operated by a McDonnell Douglas MD-80 , the DC-9 's successor aircraft ) crashed over thirty-six years later . At the time , the crash was the world 's deadliest civil air disaster . The fatality total was surpassed in 1971 by All Nippon Airways Flight 58 , which killed 162 people after colliding with an F-86 fighter jet
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708
West Caribbean Airways Flight 708
Viasa Flight 742