On 22 December 1974 Avensa Flight 358 took off on runway 05 from Maturín Airport on a flight to Simón Bolívar International Airport in Venezuela. The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 had 67 passengers and 6 crew on board. Five minutes after takeoff from Maturín Airport both engines shut down. Then the pilots lost control of the aircraft and crashed near the city of Maturin, Venezuela killing all 77 on board the flight.