What the records say
- When
- 30 Jan 1979
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 0.00° N, 160.00° W
- Description
- aircraft that went missing over the Pacific Ocean near Japan on January 30, 1979
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Varig Flight 967
1979 disappearance of a cargo flight from Japan to Brazil
Varig Flight 967 was an international cargo flight from Narita International Airport in Japan to Rio de Janeiro–Galeão International Airport in Brazil, with a stopover at Los Angeles International Airport in the United States. On 30 January 1979, the Boeing 707 serving the flight disappeared while en route to Los Angeles with radio contact being lost an hour into the flight.
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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 (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “над Тихим океаном исчез Boeing 707 бразильской компании VARIG, выполнявший грузовой рейс из Токио в Рио-де-Жанейро с 6 членами экипажа”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ヴァリグ・ブラジル航空967便遭難事故”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page