Of the 164 people aboard ( 156 passengers and eight crew ) , 131 were killed ( 125 passengers and 6 crew ) , making it the deadliest airplane accident in Portugal to that point . As of 2018 , it is the second deadliest airplane accident in Portugal , after Independent Air Flight 1851 . It remains TAP Portugal 's only fatal accident since the beginning of its flight operations in 1946
Independent Air Flight 1851
Independent Air Flight 1851
TAP Air Portugal Flight 425