Cruzeiro do Sul Flight 109
Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul Sud Aviation Caravelle · Engine one did not generate enough lift
From Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport (BEL) to Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport (SLZ)
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
- 23 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 0
- 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
Sud Aviation Caravelle
- Aircraft type
- Sud AVIATION CARAVELLE
- 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-PDX
- Operator
- Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul
- Onboard fatalities
- 23
- Route
- From Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport (BEL)To Marechal Cunha Machado International Airport (SLZ)
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 1 June 1973, a Sud Aviation Caravelle of Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul operating the Belém - Pará - Rio de Janeiro route suffered a fatal accident as it was preparing to land at a stopover in São Luís, in Maranhão.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 109 de Cruzeiro do Sul” (revision 175265731, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Spanish Wikipedia article: Vuelo 109 de Cruzeiro do Sul
- Article
- Vuelo 109 de Cruzeiro do Sul
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 175265731 · 2026-09-09 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q10392501
- 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
- es Wikipedia article "Vuelo 109 de Cruzeiro do Sul" (page 11570434, revision 175265731), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- 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
- flight number in the article title
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Spanish Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.