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...mechanical trouble with my engines," he told the control tower at Orly Airport. The control tower at Orly alerted all rescue units and prepared for an emergency landing by the crippled craft. The alert was in vain. Only a minute and a half before its scheduled landing, the Brazilian Varig Airlines 707, which had flown from Sāo Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, crash-landed in an onion field 2½ miles from the airport...
...Under Castello Branco's order, Panair's domestic service will go to Cruzeiro do Sul and VASP, which fly to most of the same cities anyway. The real prize, Panair's routes to Europe and the Mideast, will go to Varig, which is already South America's biggest airline and by far its best. Founded in 1927, Varig has been run for the past 23 years by Ruben Berta, 57, a onetime Lufthansa accountant who has built it into an international operation with routes to South America's west coast and the U.S., a huge...
...sooner was Panair grounded than Varig moved in to pick up the pieces, loaded passengers booked on a Panair DC-8 directly onto a Varig Convair 990 for a Lisbon-Paris-Frankfurt flight. Now Berta is talking about renting two of Panair's DC-8s and assigning a new Varig Boeing 707 to the transatlantic service. It was a familiar routine for Berta & Co. Panair is the tenth Brazilian airline that Varig has swallowed in as many years...
...Lima, Peru, where low-hanging clouds are a constant fret to pilots, the skies were encouragingly clear when a Boeing 707 flight of Brazil's Varig Airlines approached from Rio de Janeiro. Carrying a crew of 17 and 80 passengers, it swung out over the ocean, circling to lose altitude for landing, blinked its landing lights in a traditional "all's well" greeting to a passing Air France jet. Minutes later it smashed into the 2,400-ft. Las Cruces hill and burst into flames. All were killed, including 18 Americans. For Varig the crash marred an enviable...
Despite his quick promise, the careful Goulart took no chances. He waited until dusk before boarding a Varig Airlines Caravelle jet. At 8:15 p.m., the lights of Brasilia shone below, and the plane was blacked out. At the last possible moment, the Caravelle pilot flipped on his landing lights, the plane touched down, and President Goulart was safely in the capital...