VASP Flight 168, a Boeing 727-212 registered PP-SRK, was a scheduled passenger flight from São Paulo to Fortaleza, Brazil which, on June 8, 1982, crashed into a mountainside, while descending into Fortaleza, killing all 137 people on board.

Captain Fernando Antônio Vieira de Paiva, age 43, had spent over 15,000 hours in the air.

First officer Carlos Roberto Duarte Barbosa, age 28, had logged over 5,000 hours.

[citation needed] Flight 168's first leg was from São Paulo to Rio de Janeiro, which was completed uneventfully.

[4][5] The investigation revealed that the captain, possibly disoriented due to bright lights from the city ahead, continued the descent well below the 5,000 feet (1,500 m) clearance limit, despite being warned twice by the ground proximity warning system and the co-pilot of the terrain ahead.