Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553, better known as Austral 2553, was a 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) away from Fray Bentos, Uruguay, on 10 October 1997.[2][3] All 74 passengers and crew perished after the impact.[1][4][5] The accident remains the deadliest one in Uruguayan[1] aviation history.