West Caribbean Airways Flight 708 was a West Caribbean Airways charter Renting flight which crashed Catastrophe in a mountainous region in northwest Venezuela in the early hours of Tuesday , 16 August 2005 , killing Killing all 160 passengers and crew on board .

The war is one of the most recent examples of high-altitude warfare in mountainous terrain , which posed significant logistical problems for the combating sides .

It was briefly disrupted Hindering by Jamaica as it passed Motion_directional over the mountainous island but rapidly strengthened Cause_change_of_strength when it moved Motion over open water once again .

Throughout Central America , Katrina produced Creating heavy rains , estimated up to in mountainous areas , triggering mudslides and flash Lighting flooding .

As always along the Soča ( Isonzo ) , the Austro-Hungarian Army 's command Control of the mountainous terrain provided Supply a formidable natural barrier to the Italians ' attempts Creating to achieve a breakthrough .

Belfort is located in a gap between the mountainous southern Vosges and the Jura Massif , strategically positioned Placing as the gateway between Alsace and central France .

The Athenians and their allies chose Choosing a location for the battle , with marshes and mountainous terrain , that prevented Preventing_or_letting the Persian cavalry from joining the Persian infantry .

On January 22 , the storm Catastrophe intensified Cause_change_of_strength to tropical cyclone Catastrophe status while passing Motion_directional northwest of Réunion ; there , Gretelle produced Creating strong wind gusts and heavy rainfall Catastrophe in mountainous regions .

The storm turned Motion southwestward and weakened Cause_change_of_strength rapidly over the mountainous terrain of Central America , dissipating Change on November1 .

The heaviest rainfall occurred Coming_to_be through a process called Name_conferral orographic lift Motion in the mountainous interior , leading to Causation hundreds of landslides .

As the war progressed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale , Armenia and Azerbaijan , both former Soviet Republics , entangled Participation themselves in protracted Change_event_time , undeclared mountain warfare Hostile_encounter in the mountainous heights of Karabakh as Azerbaijan attempted to curb Hindering the secessionist movement in Nagorno-Karabakh .

On the mainland , the hurricane Catastrophe dropped Motion torrential Motion rainfall , and many gauges were washed Removing away in mountainous areas where unofficial rainfall totals were as high as 1900 mm ( 75 in ) .

During the first months of the occupation , the Indonesian military faced Confronting_problem heavy insurgency resistance in the mountainous interior of the island , but from 1977–1978 , the military procured Getting new advanced Cause_to_make_progress weaponry Bearing_arms from the United States , Israel , and other countries , to destroy Destroying Fretilin 's framework .

The punitive expedition Traveling launched GetReady by the British in response Response required Imposing_obligation the transportation of a sizable military force hundreds of miles across mountainous terrain lacking any road system .

Stuart therefore prepared GetReady for a long siege Besieging , seizing the mountainous heights over the approaches Arriving to the town and opening Openness a steady fire , which was vigorously returned .

The cities that reported Reporting human casualties Catastrophe are located in a mountainous area , in the neighborhood of the Serra dos Órgãos national park .

The battle Hostile_encounter ended Process_end in a victory Earnings_and_losses for the UN after their forces were able to drive Motion off an attempted offensive Attack by three North Korean Korean People 's Army ( KPA ) divisions in the mountainous eastern coast of the country .

When several divisions of the KPA crossed Motion_directional through mountainous terrain to push the UN forces back , a complicated battle Hostile_encounter ensued Coming_to_be in the rugged terrain around P'ohang-dong , which contained Containing the vital supply line to the main UN force at Taegu .

Barbara then moved Motion across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and dissipated Dispersal within the mountainous terrain of Sierra Madre de Chiapas on May 30 .

The Taliban and al-Qaeda forces fired Use_firearm mortars and heavy machine guns from entrenched positions in the caves and ridges of the mountainous terrain at U.S. forces attempting to secure the area .

Janet quickly weakened Cause_change_of_strength over Mexico 's mountainous terrain before dissipating Removing on September 30 .

As a result , Cuba experienced flash flooding Catastrophe in mountainous areas as Katrina moved Motion across the country .

The Rif War Military_operation was an armed Bearing_arms conflict Hostile_encounter fought Hostile_encounter from 1920 to 1927 between the colonial power Spain ( later joined Becoming_a_member by France ) and the Berber tribes of the Rif mountainous region of Morocco .

After moving Motion across mountainous terrain in Central America , the surface circulation of Mitch dissipated Dispersal on November 1 .

After maintaining this intensity for 16 hours , Irma weakened Cause_change_of_strength considerably due to interaction with the mountainous terrain of the Philippines .

After moving Motion inland , Caroline quickly weakened Cause_change_of_strength and dissipated Dispersal over the mountainous terrain of northeastern Mexico on September 1 .