Country Brazil State Mato Grosso Area 7,464 km² | Region Center-West Time zone UTC -3 | |
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Mesoregion Nordeste Mato-Grossense | ||
São José do Xingu is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso in the Central-West Region of Brazil.
Contents
- Map of SC3A3o JosC3A9 do Xingu State of Mato Grosso Brazil
- S o jos do xingu estrada mt 322 janeiro 2013
- Plane crash
- References
Map of S%C3%A3o Jos%C3%A9 do Xingu - State of Mato Grosso, Brazil
S o jos do xingu estrada mt 322 janeiro 2013
Plane crash
On 3 September 1989, a Varig Boeing 737-241 registration PP-VMK operating flight 254 flying from São Paulo-Guarulhos to Belém-Val de Cães with intermediate stops, crashed near São José do Xingu while on the last leg of the flight between Marabá and Belém due to a pilot navigational error, which led to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent belly landing into the jungle, 40 km from São José do Xingu. Out of 54 occupants, there were 13 fatalities, all of them passengers. The survivors were discovered only after 4 of the occupants walked for 3 hours through the forest to find help.
References
São José do Xingu Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA