TANS Peru Boeing 737-200 plane crash
Key facts
- Airline
- TANS Peru
- Aircraft
- Boeing 737-200
- Location
- Pucallpa, Peru
- Date
- 23rd August, 2005
- People on board
- 98
- Fatalities
- 40
Accident account
The aircraft was approaching Pucallpa on a domestic flight from Lima with heavy thunderstorms in the vicinity of the airport when, shortly after 3:00pm local time, it encountered windshear and heavy turbulence, and crashed onto a jungle-covered, dirt roadway approximately 2 miles from the runway at 3:06pm.
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Accident location
The aircraft (Boeing 737-200)
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Aircraft similar to the one which crashed (Boeing 737-200)
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