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| Date: | Saturday 13 June 1942 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
| Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
| Registration: | 7252 |
| MSN: | |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Maxaranguape, RN -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Belém/Val-de-Cans International Airport, PA (BEL/SBBE) |
| Natal Airport, RN (NAT/SBNT) |
Crashed after encountering a severe thunderstorm. The airplane came down in sea five miles from Natal. The Catalina was part of group being ferried from Norfolk NAS to Natal, Brazil.
Probable cause: Flying at low altitude in heavy rain and rough air, the pilot temporarily lost his horizon and put plane in glide into water.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher
US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War / Ragnar Ragnarsson
g1.globo.com
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