Aeroperú Flight 603

When

2 Oct 1996

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

12.03° S, 77.50° W

Description

airplane crash in Pacific Ocean in October 1996 en route to Chile

Deaths

70

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

1996 aviation accident in the Pacific Ocean

Aeroperú Flight 603 was a scheduled passenger flight from Miami International Airport in Miami, Florida, United States, to Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, with stopovers in Quito, Ecuador, and Lima, Peru. On October 2, 1996, the Boeing 757 aircraft flying the final leg of the flight crashed into the Pacific Ocean. All 70 people onboard were killed.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the Pacific Ocean when the instruments fail just after takeoff from Lima Airport, killing all 70 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Авиалайнер Boeing 757-23A авиакомпании AeroPerú выполнял регулярный пассажирский рейс PLI 603 по маршруту Майами—Кито—Лима—Сантьяго, но через 29 минут после…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Un Boeing 757-200 de AeroPerú que volaba a Chile se estrella en el Océano Pacífico; mueren 70 ocupantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “秘魯航空603號班機空難”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page