ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333900
| Date: | Wednesday 2 December 1959 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-049 Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | Panair do Brasil |
| Registration: | PP-PCR |
| MSN: | 2060 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1946 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 44 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | UI |
| Location: | Buenos Aires, BA -
 Argentina
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
| Belém/Val-de-Cans International Airport, PA (BEL/SBBE) |
Brazilian air force officers seized several air force planes and hijacked a Panair Constellation in a revolt against President Juscelino Kubitschek. When the revolt failed, they commandeered the plane to Buenos Aires.
Sources:
Folha da Manhã newspaper 4-dec-59
Fernando Dannemann, a Revolta de Aragarças
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 28 February 1962 | PP-PCR | Panair do Brasil | 0 | Rio de Janeiro-Galeão International Airport, RJ (GIG) |  |
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