Overview

• The aircraft, identified in earlier reports as registration YV3549, went down near the San Vicente landfill in Maracay after departing Base Aérea Sucre on a training flight.
• Authorities described the helicopter as U.S.-made and said it “precipitated” without reporting an emergency before impact.
• Rescue and security teams from the national police, Aragua firefighters, Protección Civil and the GNB secured the site and began recovery and preliminary inquiries.
• The government confirmed two fatalities but has not publicly released the victims’ identities, while a Venezuelan journalist named two Air Force majors linked to the Gran Mariscal Sucre school.
• The crash comes as Defense Minister Vladimir Padrino López alleges that multiple U.S. fighter jets approached Venezuela’s Caribbean coast, underscoring heightened military activity in the region.