Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 21 OCT 1954 |
| Type: | Douglas R4D-1 (DC-3) |
| Operator: | Cruzeiro do Sul |
| Registration: | PP-CCP |
| C/n / msn: | 4226 |
| First flight: | 1942 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 28 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 31 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU) (Brazil)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | ? |
| Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ), Brazil |
Fast touchdown on wet runway; the DC-3 named "Jurema" overran into Guanabara Bay
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Error of judgement by he pilot in landing the aircraft too fast in tail wind conditions." Events:
Sources:
» Air Britain Casualty compendium (pt. 60)
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
