LANSA Flight 508

When

24 Dec 1971

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

9.38° S, 74.96° W

Description

1971 aviation accident in Peru

Deaths

91

Injured

1

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1971 aviation accident in Peru

LANSA Flight 508 was a Lockheed L-188A Electra turboprop operated as a scheduled domestic passenger flight by Lineas Aéreas Nacionales Sociedad Anonima (LANSA) that crashed in a thunderstorm en route from Lima to Pucallpa in Peru on 24 December 1971, killing 91 people – all 6 crew on board and 85 of its 86 passengers.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Juliane Koepcke survives a fall of 10,000 feet following disintegration of LANSA Flight 508.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Puerto Inca, Region Huánuco, Peru”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la selva amazónica peruana, se da el accidente del Vuelo 508 de LANSA (Perú), con un mortífero saldo de 91 fallecidos”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page