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Varig Flight 254 crashes in the Amazon rainforest near São José do Xingu in Brazil, killing 12.
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Varig Flight 254
1989 aviation accident in Brazil
Varig Flight 254 was a Boeing 737-241, c/n 21006/398, registration PP-VMK, on a scheduled passenger flight from São Paulo, Brazil, to Belém, capital city of the state of Pará in the country's North Region, on 3 September 1989. The flight had several intermediate stopovers, the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Amazon rainforest
Large rainforest in South America
The Amazon rainforest, also called the Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7 million km2 (2.7 million sq mi), of which 6 million km2 (2.3 million sq…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
São José do Xingu
Municipality in Center-West, Brazil
São José do Xingu is a municipality in the state of Mato Grosso, in the Central-West Region of Brazil.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
September 3
Day of the year
September 3 is the 246th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 119 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)