Varig football-on-the-ADF crash 1989?
Lord knows this certainly belongs under the heading of "rumor," or even rumour, but I vaguely recall hearing at the time that the infamous Varig 737-into-the-Amazon crash in September 1989, after the captain mistakenly set 270 instead of 027 into the autopilot, was at least in part brought about by the fact that the crew was avidly listening to a Brazil/Chile World Cup qualifying match on the ADF and thus never noticed their totally wrong heading.
Is this buehlchit or something that's widely suspected of being true?
Stephan Wilkinson