Accident description
Last updated: 18 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 25 MAY 1982 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-2A1 |
| Operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
| Registration: | PP-SMY |
| C/n / msn: | 20970/376 |
| First flight: | 1974-09-24 (7 years 8 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 112 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 118 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Brasilia International Airport, DF (BSB) (Brazil)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Brasília International Airport, DF (BSB/SBBR), Brazil |
The aircraft landed heavily, nosegear first, in conditions of rain. The nosegear collapsed and the aircraft skidded off the runway, and broke in two.
PROBABLE CAUSE: The pilot's misuse of rain repellent, causing an optical illusion.
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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.
