page_title: Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553
hierarchical_section_title: Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553
caption_attribution_description: Rio Grande - International (RGA / SAWE) Argentina 3.1995 w/o when it crashed in a swampland on the banks of the Uruguay River near Nuevo Berlin, Uruguay 10 Oktober 1997
context_page_description: Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, also known as Austral 2553, was an Argentinian domestic, scheduled Posadas–Buenos Aires service operated with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that crashed on the lands of Estancia Magallanes, Nuevo Berlín, 32 kilometres away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on 10 October 1997. All 74 passengers and crew died upon impact. The accident remains the deadliest in Uruguayan history.
context_section_description: Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, also known as Austral 2553, was an Argentinian domestic, scheduled Posadas–Buenos Aires service operated with a McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 that crashed on the lands of Estancia Magallanes, Nuevo Berlín, 32 kilometres (20 mi; 17 nmi) away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on 10 October 1997. All 74 passengers and crew died upon impact. The accident remains the deadliest in Uruguayan history.
caption: LV-WEG, the aircraft involved in the accident seen in 1995.
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