VASP Flight 375
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Rio de Janeiro | |
| Passengers | 98 plus 1 hijacker |
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| Crew | 7 |
| Fatalities | 1 (First Officer) |
| Injuries | 3 (1 crew, 1 flight attendant, 1 hijacker) |
| Survivors | 104 (All passengers, 6 crew, 1 hijacker) |
VASP Flight 375 was a hijacked flight on September 29, 1988, by Raimundo Nonato Alves da Conceição, who aimed to crash the plane with 98 passengers and 7 crew aboard against the
The pilot who averted the tragedy, Fernando Murilo de Lima e Silva, was honored in October 2001 by the National Aeronaut Union and received the Aeronautical Highlight trophy for preventing the deaths of almost 100 passengers aboard the aircraft.
Hijacking
By the end of the 1980s,
The aircraft was a
The flight, which came from Porto Velho and stopped at Belo Horizonte, took off at 10:42 am and about 20 minutes after takeoff, with the plane already in the air space of Rio de Janeiro, Raimundo Nonato announced the hijacking: said he wanted to enter in the cockpit and shot Ronaldo Dias, a flight attendant, when he tried to stop him. He fired several times at the cockpit door, broke it open, and went inside. Upon entering, Raimundo shot the extra crew member, Gilberto Renhe, who had his leg fractured by the shot. Without the hijacker noticing, pilot Fernando Murilo de Lima e Silva called for the transponder code 7500, which in the language of aeronautics indicates illegal interference (hijacking). While attempting to answer Cindacta's radio response, First Officer Salvador Evangelista was shot by the hijacker and died instantly. Raimundo then pointed the revolver at the captain and demanded that the aircraft be diverted immediately to Brasília. Raimundo eventually gave up throwing the plane against the
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