Date:	Saturday 22 December 1962
Time:	01:00
Type:	Convair CV-240-2
Owner/operator:	Varig
Registration:	PP-VCQ
MSN:	103
Year of manufacture:	1948
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 40
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Brasilia, DF -   Brazil
Phase:	Approach
Nature:	Passenger - Non-Scheduled/charter/Air Taxi
Departure airport:	Belo Horizonte-Pampulha Airport, MG (PLU/SBBH)
Destination airport:	Brasília International Airport, DF (BSB/SBBR)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Convair struck trees 8400 m short of the runway and skidded 300 m and fell to one side.
The aircraft was on the final leg of the Rio de Janeiro-Belo Horizonte-Brasilia flight.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The aircraft descended below the prescribed altitude for undetermined reasons."

ICAO Accident Digest No.14 Volume II, Circular 71-AN/63 (149-153)

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