What the records say
- When
- 8 Jun 1982
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 3.78° S, 38.87° W
- Description
- 1982 aviation accident
- Deaths
- 137
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
VASP Flight 168
1982 aviation accident in Brazil
VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727-212 registered PP-SRK, was a scheduled domestic 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.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727 passenger jet, crashes into a forest hillside in Fortaleza in Brazil, killing 137.”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “авиакатастрофа в Бразилии, пассажирский самолёт Боинг-727 упал в лес около Форталезы, погибли 137 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page