Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 26 JAN 2003 |
| Time: | 14:15 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-2M9 |
| Operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
| Registration: | PP-SPJ |
| C/n / msn: | 21236/461 |
| First flight: | 1976-05-26 (26 years 8 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 87 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 93 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Rio Branco-Pres. Medici Airport, AC (RBR) (Brazil)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Manaus-Eduardo Gomes International Airport, AM (MAO/SBEG), Brazil |
| Rio Branco-Pres. Medici Airport, AC (RBR/SBRB), Brazil |
The VASP Boeing 737 was approaching runway 06 when it entered a fog bank. The flight descended below MDA until hitting a tree. The plane then crash-landed, causing the undercarriage to collapse. The aircraft sustained severe structural damage.
Sources:
» Departamento de Aviação Civil (DAC)
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Distance from Manaus-Eduardo Gomes International Airport, AM to Rio Branco-Pres. Medici Airport, AC as the crow flies is 1147 km (717 miles).
Distance from Manaus-Eduardo Gomes International Airport, AM to Rio Branco-Pres. Medici Airport, AC as the crow flies is 1147 km (717 miles).
This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
