Date:	Tuesday 13 May 1980
Time:
Type:	Britten-Norman BN-2A-6 Islander
Owner/operator:	VOTEC Servicios Aéreos Regionais
Registration:	PT-KHK
MSN:	208
Year of manufacture:	1971
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 7
Aircraft damage:	Aircraft missing, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near São Paulo-Viracopos Airport, SP (VCP) -   Brazil
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Survey
Departure airport:	Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ)
Destination airport:	São Paulo/Campinas-Viracopos International Airport, SP (VCP/SBKP)

Narrative:
The BN-2A Islander aircraft operated on a survey mission for the Project Radam. It departed Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport at 12:30 hours and failed to arrive at the destination, Viracopos Airport. Last radio contact was at 12:51 when the pilot reported that he was cancelling IFR and proceeding VFR.
The search for the aircraft was called off after 19 days. A total of 85.500 square miles had been searched with result.

Jornal do Brasil, 13 June 1980 p.16
World Directory of Airliner Crashes
Folha de São Paulo 26-5-1980

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