TAM Airlines Flight 3054 ( JJ3054/TAM3054 ) was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight from Porto Alegre to São Paulo , Brazil . On the evening of July 17 , 2007 , the Airbus A320-233 executing the flight overran runway 35L at São Paulo during moderate rain and crashed into a nearby TAM Express warehouse adjacent to a Shell filling station . The plane exploded on impact , killing all 187 passengers and crew on board and 12 people on the ground . The crash surpassed Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 as the deadliest aviation accident in South American history , and remains the deadliest aviation accident involving the A320 proper worldwide , and the second-worst air disaster involving the A320 family , surpassed by the bombing of Metrojet Flight 9268 , an A321-231 , which crashed in Egypt in October 2015 with 224 fatalities . The accident was investigated by the Brazilian Air Force 's Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center ( ; CENIPA ) , with a final report issued in September 2009 . CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed by the pilots during the landing at São Paulo
Metrojet Flight 9268
Metrojet Flight 9268
TAM Airlines Flight 3054