Accident description
Last updated: 23 May 2013
| Status: | |
| Date: | 23 SEP 1959 |
| Time: | 18:40 |
| Type: | SAAB Scandia 90A-1 |
| Operator: | VASP - Viação Aérea São Paulo |
| Registration: | PP-SQV |
| C/n / msn: | 90.106 |
| First flight: | 1950 |
| Engines: | 2 Pratt & Whitney R-2180-E1 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 4 / Occupants: 4 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 16 / Occupants: 16 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 20 / Occupants: 20 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | near São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH) (Brazil)
 |
| Phase: | En route (ENR) |
| Nature: | Domestic Scheduled Passenger |
| Departure airport: | São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP), Brazil |
| Rio de Janeiro (unknown airport), RJ, Brazil |
The Saab plane didn't gain enough height after takeoff from and crashed 1 1/2 minutes out of São Paulo.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The cause of the accident could not be determined." Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest, Circular 62-AN/57 (181)
» The Deseret News - Sep 24, 1959
Photos
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.
languages:
Brazil
Share
Saab Scandia
Brazil- 16th worst accident (at the time)
- 46th worst accident (currently)