ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334844
| Date: | Friday 26 August 1955 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas DC-3A |
| Owner/operator: | Cruzeiro do Sul |
| Registration: | PP-CBY |
| MSN: | 11692 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Castelo, ES -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Campos dos Goitacazes-Bartolomeu Lisandro Airport, RJ (CAW/SBCP) |
| Caravelas Airport, BA (CRQ/SBCV) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The Cruzeiro flight departed Rio de Janeiro for an IFR flight to Campos, Caravelas, Ilhéus and Salvador, Brazil.
Last contact with the flight was when after departure from Campos at 1500 m. The DC-3 was later found to have struck a mountain in the Serra do Costelo between the cities of Castelo and Cachoeiro de Itapemirim.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was due to the Forno Grande peak not being indicated on current charts, the flight being conducted outside the airway and failure to adhere to he approved flight plan."
Sources:
ICAO Accident Digest Circular 50-AN/45 (172)
Folha da Manhã 27-8-1955
Folha da Manhã 28-8-1955
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