Date:	Friday 3 May 1963
Time:	19:40
Type:	Convair CV-340-59
Owner/operator:	Cruzeiro do Sul
Registration:	PP-CDW
MSN:	159
Year of manufacture:	1954
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 37 / Occupants: 50
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	ca 1 km E of São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH) -   Brazil
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	São Paulo-Congonhas Airport, SP (CGH/SBSP)
Destination airport:	Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ)

Narrative:
The Convair had to return when the no. 2 engine caught fire. The captain feathered the prop and made a left turn. When on finals for runway 16, the Convair nosed up (45°), stalled and struck a house on the Avenida Piassang.

PROBABLE CAUSE: Probable pilot error: improper procedures on unfeathering of the no. 2 prop.

Jornal do Brasil - May 4, 1963
Folha de São Paulo May 5, 1963

Other occurrences involving this aircraft


6 February 1953	N91239	Northeast Airlines	0	La Guardia Field, New York, NY		sub
22 August 1968	N91239	East Coast Leasing	0	Martinsburg Airport, WV (MRB)		w/o

photo (c) unknown (Smithsonian Institution); in flight (CC:by)

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