Varig Logística Varig Logística Varig Logística S.A., operating as VarigLog, was a cargo airline, based in Jardim Aeroporto, Campo Belo, São Paulo, Brazil. All operations were suspended on 1 February 2012 and on 27 September 2012 it was declared bankrupt. The airline started operations in September 2000 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Varig and employed 1,345 staff. Varig Log was purchased for US$48.2 million by the consortium Volo do Brasil in December 2005 during the split-up of the assets of Varig. Volo do Brasil comprised the MatlinPatterson Funds and the Brazilian investors Marcos Antonio Audi, Marcos Hapfel and Luiz Eduardo Gallo.
Varig Flight 254 (270°). The Boeing 737 was not equipped with INS, using only automatic direction finders (ADF) and VOR. Months after the accident, the flight plan VARIG 254 used was shown to 21 pilots of major airlines in the world during a test conducted by the International Federation of Air Line Pilots' Associations (IFALPA). No fewer than 15 pilots committed the same mistake that the VARIG flight 254 crew had made. After the flight 254 accident, VARIG would install Omega navigation systems in their aircraft. Also, there were several contributing factors to the accident: the pilot did not realise he should be