Sgt Pepper, tks for the reminder.
Punkalouver
The jungle landing aircraft was a Varig 737-241, reg PP-VMK, and in fact there is a link to the accident report in aviation-safety, but in Portuguese:
http://aviation-safety.net/database/...?id=19890903-0
I was around when it happened as, I imagine, Sgt Pepper was, and dismayed at how the holes in the proverbial cheese just seemed to align themselves conveniently to turn a relatively minor cockup into a major calamity.
Sorry for taking things off thread. Back to Venezuela and it may be instructive to learn how much time they had to think things through after it all went quiet. If they were aiming for a strip and had the altitude, what massive bad luck.