Varig Flight 820 Varig Flight 820 Varig Flight 820 was a flight of the Brazilian airline Varig that departed from Galeão International Airport in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on July 11, 1973, for Orly Airport, in Paris, France. The plane, a Boeing 707 registration PP-VJZ, made an emergency landing on onion fields about four kilometers from Orly Airport, due to smoke in the cabin from a fire in one of the toilets. The fire caused 123 deaths; there were only 11 survivors (ten crew members and one passenger). Flight 820's problems began when a fire started in a rear lavatory. Crew members moved
Southern Star Airlines Southern Star Airlines Southern Star Airlines was a domestic airline based in Juba, the capital and largest city of South Sudan. Southern Star Airlines was founded since the independence of the country in July 2011. The airline owned only one aircraft, which was one de Havilland Canada DHC-8-100, registration . Southern Star Airlines' inaugural flight took place on 20 August 2011. However, after only two months of ""erratic operations"", the airline closed, shut down all operations, and gave away its one and only aircraft to the Kenyan-based airline ALS. Southern Star Airlines formed in 2011 shortly after its independence from