TAM Airlines Flight 3054
Flight 3054's tailfin being recovered by emergency workers
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| Date | July 17, 2007 |
| Summary | Runway overshoot caused by irregular power setting and hydroplaning, pilot error |
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Congonhas-São Paulo Airport, São Paulo, Brazil 23°37′11″S 046°39′44″W / 23.61972°S 46.66222°WCoordinates: 23°37′11″S 046°39′44″W / 23.61972°S 46.66222°W |
| Passengers | 181 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 199 (all 187 on board; 12 on the ground) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | Airbus A320-233 |
| Operator | TAM Airlines |
| Registration | PR-MBK |
| Flight origin | Salgado Filho International Airport, Porto Alegre, Brazil |
| Destination | Congonhas-São Paulo Airport, São Paulo, Brazil |
 Pre-accident pictures of aircraft at Airliners.net
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Pre-accident pictures of aircraft at JetPhotos.net
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TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ3054/TAM3054) was an Airbus A320-233, registration PR-MBK, on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. On July 17, 2007, the Airbus A320 overran runway 35L at São Paulo during moderate rain and crashed into a nearby TAM Express warehouse adjacent to a Shell filling station. All 187 passengers and crew aboard the Airbus A320 died, along with 12 people on the ground. It surpassed Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 as the deadliest air disaster in Brazilian territory, and remains the deadliest aviation accident involving an Airbus A320 proper worldwide. It was also the deadliest accident involving an aircraft of the A320 family at the time, which was later surpassed by the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268, an A321-231, which crashed in Egypt in October 2015 with 224 fatalities.
The accident was investigated by the Brazilian Air Force's Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Portuguese: Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos (CENIPA)), with a final report issued in September 2009. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed by the pilots on the flight to São Paulo.
The aircraft serving Flight 3054 was an Airbus A320-233, serial number 789, registration PR-MBK, powered by two IAE V2500-533 engines. It was built in February 1998 and first entered service in March flying for TACA Peru as N454TA, later serving in the fleet of Pacific Airlines as VN-A168. The aircraft was owned by Pegasus Aviation before entering service with TAM in January 2007. As of April 20, 2007, the aircraft had flown almost 21,000 hours over 10,000 cycles.
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