| Date: | Thursday 21 February 1952 |
| Time: | 14:10 |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-25-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Varig |
| Registration: | PP-VCB |
| MSN: | 26641 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Guanabara Bay, RJ -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | Take off |
| Nature: | Unknown |
| Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
No.1 engine failure on climb out. The prop was not feathered, causing the aircraft to enter a stall. The aircraft came down in Guanabara Bay.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "1) Port engine failure for reasons undetermined. 2) Error of judgement by the pilot in not feathering the port propeller."
Sources:
Folha da Manha 21 February 1952
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