Date:	Tuesday 29 April 1952
Time:	04:40
Type:	Boeing 377 Stratocruiser 10-26
Owner/operator:	Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)
Registration:	N1039V
MSN:	15939/12
Year of manufacture:	1949
Total airframe hrs:	6944 hours
Engine model:	Pratt & Whitney R-4360-B6
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 50 / Occupants: 50
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	450 km SW of Carolina, MA -   Brazil
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, RJ (GIG/SBGL)
Destination airport:	Port of Spain-Piarco Airport (POS/TTPP)
Investigating agency:	CAB
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
Flight 202 originated at Buenos Aires, destination New York, with en route stops scheduled at Montevideo, Uruguay; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Port of Spain, Trinidad. The flight departed Buenos Aires 18:52 UTC. After a scheduled stop at Montevideo the flight arrived at Rio de Janeiro at 01:05, April 29. The flight departed Rio de Janeiro at 02:43 for a direct off-airways flight to Port of Spain. At 06:16 the flight reported abeam of Barreiras, flying at 14,500 feet under VFR conditions and estimating abeam of Carolina, Brazil, at 07:45 UTC. This was the last known message from the flight. The aircraft was later found to have crashed in dense jungle.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The separation of the no.2 engine and propeller from the aircraft due to highly unbalanced forces, followed by uncontrollability and disintegration of the aircraft for reasons undetermined."

CAB File No. 1-0080
ICAO Circular 38-AN/33 (64-72)

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27 July 1952

N1030V

Pan American World Airways (Pan Am)

1

off Rio de Janeiro, RJ

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photo (c) Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); 450 km SW of Carolina, MA; May 1952; (publicdomain)

photo (c) Civil Aeronautics Board (CAB); 450 km SW of Carolina, MA; May 1952; (publicdomain)

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