| Date: | Tuesday 12 December 1961 |
| Time: | 16:00 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-55-CK Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Varig |
| Registration: | PP-VBM |
| MSN: | 134 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 2 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | 50 m off Praia de Itaipu, Niterói, RJ -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | Unknown |
| Nature: | Training |
| Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
| Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
The C-46 was on a training flight when a failure of the no. 1 engine was simulated. The no. 1 prop was feathered, but instead of feathering, the prop went into reverse. Power on the no. 2 engine was reduced, but the aircraft couldn't reach the coast and had to be ditched in the sea 50 m offshore, off Itaipu Beach.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Engine and propeller accessory failure."
Sources:
A Noite 13 December 1961, p8
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