ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 333612
| Date: | Monday 6 March 1961 |
| Time: | 13:37 |
| Type: |  Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation |
| Owner/operator: | Iberia |
| Registration: | EC-AIP |
| MSN: | 4552 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1954 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 46 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH) -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Madrid-Barajas Airport (MAD/LEMD) |
| São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP) |
The Super Constellation, named "Santa Clara", carried out an instrument approach to São Paulo's runway 16 with flaps and gear extended when it lost altitude due to a downward gust. The plane crashed and caught fire short of the runway.
Iberia flight 991 was a scheduled service from Madrid, Spain to Buenos Aires, Argentina via São Paulo, Brazil.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Pilot misjudged distance and failed to compensate for wind conditions during the approach."
Sources:
Jornal do Brasil - 7 March 1961
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