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TAMU Flight 584

20 Jun 1977 · Near Nueva Hespérides International Airport, Salto, Uruguay

Transporte Aéreo Militar Uruguayo Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante · Pilot error due to bad weather

From Carrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD) to Nueva Hesperides International Airport (STY)

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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
5 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
Occupants
Unknown
Survivors
10
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
3
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

Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante

Aircraft type
Embraer EMB-110
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
CX-BJE / T-584
Onboard fatalities
5
Route
From Carrasco General Cesáreo L. Berisso International Airport (MVD)To Nueva Hesperides International Airport (STY)

Cause areas

  • Personnel issues › Task performance
  • Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena

From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.

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 20 June 1977, an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante of TAMU took off from Montevideo bound for Salto, and crashed into some trees and an orange grove while attempting to land at Salto. Killing five of the 15 people on board.

Accident

On approaching Salto airport, the crew encountered bad weather conditions and did not realise that their altitude was insufficient. Which caused the aircraft to strike trees and crash into an orange grove.

Investigation and cause

Investigation

The investigation revealed that the cause of the accident was pilot error due to the bad weather during landing, which caused the aircraft to run off the runway.

Translated into English with AI assistance from the Spanish Wikipedia article “Vuelo 584 de TAMU” (revision 175241609, 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 584 de TAMU
Article
Vuelo 584 de TAMU
Translation
Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
Revision
175241609 · 2026-09-07 · retrieved 2026-09-19
Wikidata
Q141188950
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 584 de TAMU" (page 11584338, revision 175241609), translated into English with AI assistance
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
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.