What happened
During a flight traveling from Porlamar toward Charallave, the aircraft was maintaining a cruising altitude of 3,000 feet when it experienced a simultaneous failure of both engines. Following the loss of power, the pilot initiated a descent to a lower altitude to manage the emergency.
Approximately 33 km north of Barcelona, the crew performed a ditching maneuver on the water. All three occupants were able to exit the aircraft and successfully evacuated into a lifeboat. The crew remained in the lifeboat until they were located and recovered by the Venezuelan coastguard roughly one hour after the incident.
Following the ditching, the aircraft submerged and was subsequently lost.