Accident Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) PP-YPX,
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ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335784
 

Date:Monday 17 September 1951
Time:18:30
Type:Silhouette image of generic DC3 model; specific model in this crash may look slightly different    
Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3)
Owner/operator:REAL Transportes Aéreos
Registration: PP-YPX
MSN: 9154
Year of manufacture:1943
Engine model:Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92
Fatalities:Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Aircraft damage: Destroyed, written off
Category:Accident
Location:Ubatuba, SP -   Brazil
Phase: En route
Nature:Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ)
Destination airport:São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP)
Narrative:
The Douglas DC-3 passenger plane, registered PP-YPX, departed Rio de Janeiro at 18:10 on a domestic flight to São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, Brazil. The airplane failed to arrive at São Paulo and was declared missing.
The wreckage was found after about two days near Ubatuba.

Sources:

Reading Eagle - Sep 20, 1951
Folha da Manhã - Sep 18, 1951
Folha da Manhã - Sep 20, 1951

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