On August 16, 2005 (July 12, 2005 in the lunar calendar), a Colombia passenger plane crashed in Venezuela, killing 160 people. 152 residents of the French island of Martinique returned home on a flight of Colombia Western Caribbean Airlines after a long week of vacation in Panama. However, they never expected that what awaited them after the happy holiday would be a human tragedy. The passenger plane crashed in western Venezuela in the early morning of the 16th local time, killing all 152 passengers and 8 crew members.