| Date: | Sunday 15 April 1951 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-45-CU Commando |
| Owner/operator: | Loide Aéreo Nacional |
| Registration: | PP-LDC |
| MSN: | 30443 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 38 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Guanabara Bay, RJ -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | Landing |
| Nature: | Passenger |
| Departure airport: | |
| Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
Weather conditions on final approach caused the pilot to go around. Another attempt to land was made, this time a tailwind landing. The Curtiss could not be stopped on the runway and overran into Guanabara Bay.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Pilot error associated with adverse weather conditions and the wet runway."
Sources:
El Siglo de Torreón 16 April 1951, p3
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