VASP Flight 210
| VASP Flight 210 | |
|---|---|
 An identical Boeing 737-200 from VASP |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Agreement on a taxiway mistakenly used as a runway |
| place |
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| date | January 28, 1986 |
| Fatalities | 1 |
| Survivors | 71 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Boeing 737-2A1
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| operator |
Viação Aérea São Paulo
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| Mark |
PP-SME
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| Departure airport |
Sao Paulo-Guarulhos Airport , Brazil
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| Destination airport |
Belo Horizonte Airport , Brazil
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| Passengers | 67 |
| crew | 5 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The VASP Flight 210 (flight number VP210 ) was a domestic flight of the airline Viação Aérea São Paulo from São Paulo-Guarulhos to Belo Horizonte . On January 28, 1986, a Boeing 737-2A1 with the aircraft registration number PP-SME had an accident on this flight , when the pilots tried to take off from a taxiway in fog and the aircraft crashed into a mound of earth after it was aborted. A person was killed in the accident.
Airplane and occupants
The aircraft involved in the accident was a Boeing 737-2A1, which was 16 years and 7 months old at the time of the accident. The machine was the work of Boeing on the Boeing Field in the state of Washington assembled and completed on 16 July 1969 its first flight before it was re-delivered to the Viação Aérea São Paulo in the same month. The aircraft had the factory number 20096, it was the 190th Boeing 737 from ongoing production. The machine was certified with the aircraft registration PP-SME . The twin- engined , narrow -body aircraft was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 engines.
There were 67 passengers and 5 crew members on board.
the accident
When it took off on the morning of January 28, 1986, there was thick fog at São Paulo Airport. Unbeknownst to them, the crew had inadvertently positioned themselves in front of a taxiway to take off. The pilots thought they were on the threshold of runway 09L. At the time of the accident, the taxiways were being expanded. There was no ground penetrating radar, nor was there a follow-me car that could have guided the machine to the runway.
When the machine had already accelerated to 250 km / h and the captain saw a hill ahead of him in the fog, immediate braking was initiated. Although the speed could be reduced, the machine could not be stopped in time. At 7:32 a.m., the Boeing hit the earth wall head-on, causing the bow section to break and buckle to the left. One passenger was killed in the accident.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Accident Report B-737-2A1, PP-SME Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ Company history B-737-2A1, PP-SME Planespotters (English), accessed on April 4, 2019.
- ↑ a b Acidentes aeronáuticos ocorridos no Brasil em 1982 Desastres Aéreos (Portuguese), accessed on April 4, 2019.