VASP Flight 168 · Serra da Aratanha
On June 8, 1982, VASP Flight 168 (Serra da Aratanha). 137 people died.
- Date
- June 8, 1982
- Place
- Serra da Aratanha
- Operator
- VASP
- Killed
- 137
- Position
- 3.781°S, 38.872°W
- Wikidata ID
- Q4346080
From Wikipedia
VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727-212 registered PP-SRK, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from São Paulo to Fortaleza, Brazil which, on June 8, 1982, crashed into a mountainside, while descending into Fortaleza, killing all 137 people on board.
The crash of Flight 168 remains both the largest death toll of a Brazilian aircraft accident from the 20th century and the third-highest death toll of any aviation accident in Brazil after Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 and TAM Airlines Flight 3054.
Text from Wikipedia, “VASP Flight 168”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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