Accident description
Last updated: 22 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 JUN 1984 |
| Type: | Embraer 110C Bandeirante |
| Operator: | TAM Transportes Aéreos Regionais |
| Registration: | PP-SBC |
| C/n / msn: | 110013 |
| First flight: | 1973 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 18 / Occupants: 18 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | N of São Pedro da Aldeia, RJ (Brazil)
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| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Non Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro (unknown airport), RJ, Brazil |
| Macaé Airport, RJ (MEA/SBME), Brazil |
The Bandeirante flew into a hill while descending through rain and clouds. The pilot had cancelled IFR and descended VFR. The aircraft had been chartered by Petrobras to fly fourteen empoyees of four Brasilian television channels to Macaé. From there they would be visiting an off shore oil platform.
Sources:
» Gainesville Sun - Jun 29, 1984
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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.
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