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
American Eagle (airline brand) American Airlines Group, and acquired through the merger with US Airways, was operating a fleet of Bombardier (formerly de Havilland Canada) DHC-8 Dash 8 turboprops for the US Airways Express regional brand. These aircraft had already been rebranded as American Eagle since the merger process is now fully complete. American Eagle (airline brand) American Eagle is an American brand name for the regional branch of American Airlines, under which nine (seven from 2019) individual regional airlines operate short- and medium-haul feeder flights. Three of these airlines, Envoy Air (formerly American Eagle Airlines), Piedmont Airlines, and PSA Airlines, are wholly owned