ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 335519
| Date: | Tuesday 14 October 1952 |
| Time: | 15:10 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Aerovias Brasil |
| Registration: | PP-AXJ |
| MSN: | 6177 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1942 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 14 / Occupants: 18 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | San Francisco de Paula, RS -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP) |
| Porto Alegre Airport, RS (POA/SBPA) |
Struck high ground.
The airplane operated on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Brazil and Buenos Aires, Argentina. It departed São Paulo at 11:45.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "1) Navigational error - fault in not clearly estimating the actual location of the aircraft. 2) Adverse weather conditions."
Sources:
Folha da Manhã 15-10-1952
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 19 December 1946 | NC54374 | Universal Air Lines | 0 | near Aberdeen, MD |  |
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