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Varig Flight 820
Deployment of emergency services at the crash site.
Accident
Date
11 July 1973
Summary
Belly landing following in-flight fire
Site
Near Orly Airport, Orly, Paris, France 48°45′N2°24′E / 48.750°N 2.400°E / 48.750; 2.400
Aircraft
Aircraft type
Boeing 707-320C
Operator
Varig
Registration
PP-VJZ
Flight origin
Galeão International Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Stopover
Orly Airport, Paris, France
Destination
Heathrow Airport, London
Occupants
134
Passengers
117
Crew
17
Fatalities
123
Injuries
11
Survivors
11
Varig Flight 820 was a flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on 11 July 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The plane, a Boeing 707, registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing in onion fields about five kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a fire in a lavatory. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors (ten crew members and one passenger).
Relief Captain Antonio Fuzimoto was the pilot who handled the controls and landed the plane in the field.[citation needed]
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approach lights and a ditch. Two of the four occupants died. July 11:, VarigFlight820, a 707-345C, on scheduled airline service from Galeão Airport, Rio...
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are no fatalities. July 11 – A fire breaks out in a lavatory aboard VarigFlight820, a Boeing 707-345C. Smoke fills the cabin, and many passengers already...
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