West Caribbean Airways Flight 708

Location: Near Machiques, Venezuela
Date: August 16, 2005
Aircraft: McDonnell Douglas MD-82

On August 16, 2005, passengers on board West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, were en route from Panama City, Panama to Fort de France, Martinique. After a 7,000 feet-per-minute dive, the plane crashed into a field in the western state of Zulia, Venezuela. All 160 passengers and crew were killed. The death toll of the crash makes it one of the deadliest of 2005, worldwide, and the second worst crash ever involving an MD-80. 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 Venezuela.

Motley Rice LLC, has filed suit against Colombian-based West Caribbean Airways, MKA, a Panamanian company, (as well as its owner and its aliases) incorporated in Nevada and doing business in several states in the United States, and others on behalf of the family of several passengers who died in the crash of West Caribbean Airways Flight 708. Motley Rice attorneys are working directly with counsel in Martinique regarding this air disaster to help bring justice to the victims of this crash.