VASP Flight 780

VASP-Flug 780
	A VASP Boeing 737-200 freighter similar to the one involved
Accident
Date	June 22, 1992
Summary	Controlled flight into terrain due to pilot error
Site	Near Cruzeiro do Sul International Airport, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil ; 7°35′4.3″S 72°54′59.15″W / 7.584528°S 72.9164306°W
Aircraft
Aircraft type	Boeing 737-2A1C
Operator	VASP
Registration	PP-SND
Flight origin	Presidente Médici International Airport, Rio Grande
Destination	Cruzeiro do Sul International Airport, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre
Occupants	3
Passengers	1
Crew	2
Fatalities	3
Survivors	0

VASP Flight 780 was a cargo flight from Rio Grande to Cruzeiro do Sul that crashed on 22 June 1992, killing all three occupants.^[1]

Aircraft and crew

The aircraft involved was a Boeing 737-2A1C. It was powered by two Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 turbofan engines.^[1]

The captain had logged 4,581 flight hours, including 3,081 hours on the Boeing 737. The first officer had 2,437 flight hours, but only 337 of them were on the Boeing 737.^[2]

Accident

After the flight was cleared to land on runway 10, the fire alarm for the cargo compartment sounded intermittently. Distracted by the alarms, the pilots steered the plane off course. At around 6:05 a.m. local time the aircraft crashed into the jungle.^[1]

References

^ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Accident Boeing 737-2A1C PP-SND, Monday 22 June 1992". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2011-06-16.
^ "Final report" (PDF) (in português). Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center. 1993-04-02. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

External links

Cockpit voice recording on YouTube

[asn-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 "Accident Boeing 737-2A1C PP-SND, Monday 22 June 1992". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 2011-06-16.

[2] "Final report" (PDF) (in português). Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center. 1993-04-02. Retrieved 2024-09-26.

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v t e Aviation accidents and incidents in Brazil
1920s–1940s	Dornier J Santos Dumont crash (December 1928) Pan Am Sikorsky S-43 crash (August 1939)
1950s	Panair do Brasil Flight 099 (July 1950) Rio do Sal Linhas Aéreas Paulistas C-47 crash (July 1951) Pan Am Flight 202 (April 1952) Transportes Aéreos Nacional Douglas C-47 mid-air fire (August 1952) Begé VARIG Commando crash (April 1957) Lufthansa Flight 502 (January 1959)
1960s	Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision (February 1960) Real Transportes Aéreos Flight 435 (June 1960) Aerolíneas Argentinas Flight 322 (November 1961) Paraná da Eva Panair do Brasil Lockheed Constellation crash (December 1962) Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul Flight 144 (May 1963)
1970s	Paraense Transportes Aéreos Flight 903 (March 1970) Lufthansa Cargo Flight 527 (July 1979)
1980s	Transbrasil Flight 303 (April 1980) Barra do Garças air disaster (June 1980) VASP Flight 168 (June 1982) TABA Fairchild FH-227 accident (June 1982) TARSA Bandeirante accident (June 1984) VASP Flight 210 (January 1986) Brazilian UFO incident (May 1986) VASP Flight 375 (September 1988) Transbrasil Flight 801 (March 1989) Varig Flight 254 (September 1989)
1990s	VASP Flight 780 (June 1992) TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais Flight 402 (October 1996)
2000s	TAM Airlines Flight 9755 (September 2001) Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4823 (August 2002) Total Linhas Aéreas Flight 5561 (September 2002) Rico Linhas Aéreas Flight 4815 (May 2004) TEAM Linhas Aéreas Flight 6865 (March 2006) Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (September 2006) TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (July 2007) Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash (February 2009) Air France Flight 447 (June 2009)*
2010s	Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 (July 2011) Santos Cessna Citation crash (August 2014) São Paulo helicopter crash (February 2019)
2020s	Palmas FR plane crash (January 2021) Piedade de Caratinga Beechcraft King Air crash (November 2021) Manaus Aerotáxi Embraer Bandeirante crash (September 2023) Rio Branco Cessna Grand Caravan crash (October 2023) Voepass Flight 2283 (August 2024)
* occurred in international waters