Accident | |
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Date | June 8, 1982 |
Summary | Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error |
Site | Aratanha Mountains near Pacatuba, CE, Brazil |
Aircraft | |
Aircraft type | Boeing 727-212 |
Operator | VASP |
IATA flight No. | VP 168 |
ICAO flight No. | VSP 168 |
Call sign | VASP 168 |
Registration | PP-SRK |
Flight origin | Congonhas Airport São Paulo, Brazil |
Stopover | Galeão International Airport Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
Destination | Pinto Martins International Airport Fortaleza, Brazil |
Occupants | 137 |
Passengers | 128 |
Crew | 9 |
Fatalities | 137 |
Survivors | 0 |
VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727-212 registered PP-SRK, was a scheduled 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.[1]
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.[2]