Boeing 737-800 crash, Sep 29, 2006 (154 killed), Peixoto...
Boeing 737-800 accident on September 29, 2006 near Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil with 154 fatalities. Cause: Errors by the Legacy crew,...
- Date: September 29, 2006
- Aircraft: Boeing 737-800
- Location: Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Fatalities: 154
- Phase of flight: En route
- Cause: Errors by the Legacy crew, including an inadvertent transponder shutdown and poor situational awareness, combined with air traffic control coordination failures that left the two aircraft on a collision course at the same level.
GOL flight 1907, a Boeing 737-800 from Manaus, collided in mid-air over Mato Grosso with an Embraer Legacy 600 flying the opposite way at the same altitude. The 737 broke apart and crashed in forest, killing all 154 aboard. The Legacy landed safely at a military airfield.