Accident description
Last updated: 21 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 28 JAN 1986 |
| Time: | ca 07:45 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-2A1 |
| Operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
| Registration: | PP-SME |
| C/n / msn: | 20096/190 |
| First flight: | 1969-07-16 (16 years 7 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-7 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 5 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 67 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 72 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, SP (GRU) (Brazil)
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| Phase: | Takeoff (TOF) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, SP (GRU/SBGR), Brazil |
| Belo Horizonte (unknown airport), MG, Brazil |
The crew unknowingly tried to take-off from a taxiway. The take-off was aborted, but the aircraft overran, collided with a dyke and broke in two. The weather was foggy.
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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.
