ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 326458
Date: | Thursday 29 September 1988 |
Time: | |
Type: | Boeing 737-317 |
Owner/operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
Registration: | PP-SNT |
MSN: | 23176/1213 |
Year of manufacture: | 1986 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 98 |
Aircraft damage: | Unknown |
Category: | UI |
Location: | Goiânia-Santa Genoveva Airport, GO (GYN) -
Brazil
|
Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Belo Horizonte-Pampulha Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH) |
Destination airport: | Rio de Janeiro (unknown airport), RJ |
Narrative:The VASP Boeing 737-300 operated on a domestic passenger flight from Porto Velho to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with en route stops at Cuiabá, Brasília, Goiânia, and Belo Horizonte.
The flight departed Belo Horizonte at 10:52. A male passenger stood up from his seat and hijacked the flight at 11:09. He stormed the cockpit at 11:12 and shot and killed the copilot when the latter attempted to stop the hijacker.
The flight diverted to Goiânia-Santa Genoveva Airport, GO (GYN) where it landed at 13:52. The hijacker was overpowered about 19:00.
Sources:
Jornal do Brasil - 30 September 1988 Revision history:
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