The accident killed all 65 passengers and crew on board and is the deadliest aviation disaster to occur in El Salvador.

[4] The captain was 39-year-old Axel Byron Miranda Herrera and the first officer was 36-year-old Víctor Francisco Sandoval Salguero.

[7] Two foreign ambassadors to Nicaragua were on the flight: Palle Marker from Denmark and Genaro Antonio Mucciolo from Brazil.

[10] Due to heavy rain and thunderstorms in the area, the captain deviated from the standard approach to Comalapa International Airport: Airway G346.

[1] Local police officer José María Gómez stated that "There were corpses wherever you looked, and body parts everywhere [...] on the rocks and in the trees.

[8] Locals in the vicinity of the crash reported hearing three loud explosions and that they witnessed fire in the sky, with some believing that the San Vicente volcano was erupting.

[13] It determined that the probable cause was the flight crew's "lack of situational awareness in relation to the 7,159 foot obstruction [the San Vicente volcano]" and its decision to descend.