VASP Flight 141
Viação Aérea São Paulo (VASP) Vickers Viscount · Controlled flight into terrain
From Recife, Brazil to Sao Pãulo, Brazil
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 39 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 39
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Vickers Viscount
- Flight
- VP141
- Aircraft type
- Vickers VISCOUNT
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PP-SRR
- Operator
- Viação Aérea São Paulo (VASP)
- Onboard fatalities
- 39
- Route
- From Recife, BrazilTo Sao Pãulo, Brazil
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
On 4 September 1964, VASP Flight 141, a Vickers 701C Viscount, was operating a domestic passenger service between Recife, Brazil, to São Paulo, Brazil, with two stopovers. During the second flight of the day, the aircraft impacted mountainous terrain, killing all 39 occupants on board.
Flight
The aircraft took off from the Vitória-Goiabeiras Airport at 6:45 p.m., GMT, and immediately climbed to 1800 m. The last contact of the plane was when the crew asked Rio de Janeiro airport control for emergency landing preparations. At 7:33 p.m., the aircraft reported over Rio Bonito when the aircraft was actually over Nova Friburgo, 43 km from Rio Bonito. One minute later, the aircraft crashed into the west slope of the Pico da Caledônia mountain at an altitude of 1950 m. Eyewitnesses saw the plane bursting and on flames. The probable cause determined by the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) was unknown.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: VASP Flight 141
- Article
- VASP Flight 141
- Revision
- 1370020601 · 2026-08-18 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q10392511
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "VASP Flight 141" (page 78465879, revision 1370020601)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.