- | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
Date: | January 30, 1979 |
Time: | ? |
Location: | 125 miles ENE of Tokyo, Japan |
Operator: | Varig |
Flight #: | ? |
Route: | Tokyo-Los Angeles-Rio de Janeiro |
AC Type: | Boeing B-707-326C |
Registration: | PP-VLU |
cn / ln: | 19235/519 |
Aboard: | 6 (passengers:0 crew:6) |
Fatalities: | 6 (passengers:0 crew:6) |
Ground: | 0 |
Summary: | Contact with the cargo plane was lost 30 minutes after taking off from Tokyo Narita Airport.The cargo included 153 paintings by Manabu Mabe, returning from a Tokyo exhibition, valued at US$1.24 million. Neither the wreck nor the paintings were ever found. The cause of the accident was blamed on cabin depressurization, which killed the crew. |
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