ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336251
Date: | Thursday 5 January 1950 |
Time: | 09:20 |
Type: | Curtiss C-46A-60-CK Commando |
Owner/operator: | Companhia Itaú de Transportes Aéreos |
Registration: | PP-XBW |
MSN: | 440 |
Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Itaquaquecetuba, SP -
Brazil
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Phase: | En route |
Nature: | Cargo |
Departure airport: | São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP) |
Destination airport: | |
Narrative:The C-46 Commando transport plane departed São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH), Brazil at 07:00 hours on a cargo flight to the north of the country. There were three crew members on board. The airplane was flying past Pouso Alegre, MG when the airplane suffered unspecified problems with an engine.
The pilot decided to return to São Paulo. The flight did not make it and force landed near Itaquaquecetuba, SP, roughly 36 km from Congonhas Airport.
Sources:
Folha de Manhã Location
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