Status:
Date:	18 MAY 1960
Type:	Curtiss C-46F-1-CU Commando
Operator:	Transamerican Air Transport
Registration:	LV-GGJ
C/n / msn:	22554
First flight:
Crew:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Passengers:	Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0
Total:	Fatalities: 10 / Occupants: 10
Airplane damage:	Written off
Airplane fate:	Written off (damaged beyond repair)
Location:	El Soseado (Argentina)
Phase:	En route (ENR)
Nature:	Cargo
Departure airport:	Buenos Aires/Ezeiza-Ministro Pistarini Airport, BA (EZE/SABA), Argentina
Destination airport:	Santiago (unknown airport), Chile

Narrative:
Curtiss LV-GGJ was to fly 7 race horses from Buenos Aires to Lima via Santiago de Chile. A VFR flight plan was filed with a cruising altitude of 3000m. The plane took off at 11:04, about one hour late. The crew reported enroute over Junin (11:59), General Soler (13:10) and San Luis (14:00). At that time the weather had changed completely. The crew reported over San Rafael (14:34) estimating El Yeso at 15:35 and then requested clearance to climb to 6000m. Nothing more was heard from the flight. The plane appeared to have crashed into a mountain peak at 4500m following structural failure.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft flew into extremely violent turbulence, was subjected to stresses greater than those for which it was designed, and in-flight structural failure resulted. Contributing causes were: 1) insufficient preparation for the flight; 2) inadequate arrangements for the secure carriage of the livestock; and 3) the pilots failure to familiarize himself with the prevailing weather conditions."

Sources:
» ICAO Accident Digest No.15 - Volume I, Circular 78-AN/66 (33-37)