Hijacking description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 18 AUG 2000 |
| Type: | Boeing 737-2A1 |
| Operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
| Registration: | PP-SMG |
| C/n / msn: | 20777/324 |
| First flight: | 1973-07-02 (27 years 2 months) |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney JT8D-17 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 6 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 66 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 72 |
| Airplane damage: | None |
| Location: | near Porecatu (Brazil) |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | Foz do Iguaçu/Cataratas Airport, PR (IGU/SBFI), Brazil |
| Curitiba-Afonso Pena International Airport, PR (CWB/SBCT), Brazil |
Hijacked to jungle airport by 8 hijackers.
Events:
Sources:
» E-mail from Domingos Junior, 12-1-2007
Photos
Map
This map shows the airport of departure and the intended destination of the flight. The line between the airports does not display the exact flight path.
Distance from Foz do Iguaçu/Cataratas Airport, PR to Curitiba-Afonso Pena International Airport, PR as the crow flies is 531 km (332 miles).
Distance from Foz do Iguaçu/Cataratas Airport, PR to Curitiba-Afonso Pena International Airport, PR as the crow flies is 531 km (332 miles).
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.
