Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport safety profile
27 recorded occurrences at or near Maiquetía Simón Bolívar International Airport (1998–2026): 1 at the airport, 26 nearby; 4 fatal, 12 fatalities.
What happens most
Notable investigated occurrences
- 2008-04-28 — Aircraft Guaranty Holdings & Trust LLC Trustee (3 fatalities) — 0.1 km
- 2014-10-11 — McDonnell Douglas MD-83 — 0.6 km
Runways
- 10/28: 11,483 ft, ASP, lighted
- 09/27: 9,930 ft, ASP, lighted
Weather patterns
- Fog: 0.409 days/year
- Thunderstorms: 16.036 days/year
- Snow: 0 days/year
- Crosswind >15kt: 0.06% of observations
- Crosswind >25kt: 0.033% of observations
Counts reflect occurrences geo-attached within 25 km of the airport from our investigation-record corpus; they are not a complete history and are not a safety ranking. A recorded occurrence decades ago says little about operations today.