What the records say
- When
- 29 Feb 1996
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 16.34° S, 71.57° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 117
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
Faucett Perú Flight 251
1996 aviation accident
Faucett Perú Flight 251 was a scheduled domestic flight from Lima to Tacna, with a stopover in Arequipa. On 29 February 1996, while completing the first leg, the Boeing 737-200 operating the route crashed on approach to Rodríguez Ballón International Airport. All 123 passengers and crew aboard the aircraft lost their lives in the accident. It is the deadliest aviation accident to occur on Peruvian soil.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Faucett Perú Flight 251 en route from Lima to Rodriguez Ballon airport crashes into a mountain near Arequipa; all 123 people on board are killed”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Arequipa, Peru”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Катастрофа Boeing 737 под Арекипой (Перу)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “frente al Aeropuerto Internacional Alfredo Rodríguez Ballón, en la ciudad de Arequipa (Perú), se estrella un Boeing 737-200 de la aerolínea Faucett Perú (Vuelo…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page