Rio de Janeiro - Campinas

On May 13, 1980 at 12:45 PM, Rio de Janeiro - Campinas experienced a crash involving Britten-Norman Islander, operated by Votec Taxi Aéreo, with the event recorded near Campinas São Paulo.

The flight was categorized as survey / patrol / reconnaissance and the reported phase was flight at a plain, valley crash site.

7 people were known to be on board, 7 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 6, passenger fatalities: 6, other fatalities: 0.

The twin engine airplane departed Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport at 1231LT on a special flight to Campinas-Viracopos, carrying six passengers and a pilot. The goal of the mission was a survey flight on behalf of the 'Rondon Project (Projeto Rondon) of the Ministry of Defence. At 1251LT, the pilot cancelled his IFR flight plan and informed ATC he was continuing under VFR mode. This was the last radio contact. As the airplane failed to land at Viracopos Airport, SAR operations were initiated but eventually abandoned 19 days later as no trace of the aircraft nor the 7 occupants was found.

Aircraft reference details include registration PT-KHK, MSN 208, year of manufacture 1970.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -22.8965°, -47.0011°.