Date: 08 June 1982
Airline: VASP Brazil
Flight No.: 168
Aircraft: B727-212
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil
Fatalities: 137:137
Photographer: Unknown
The aircraft, on a night visual
approach to Fortaleza, crashed into a mountain at 2500 feet AGL. The Captain,
preoccupied with the airport (which was in sight to the right of the aircraft),
ignored an altitude alert and the First Officer's warning of mountains ahead
and continued descending.
