ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 325405
| Date: | Monday 2 November 1992 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47A-65-DL (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Transportes Aéreos San Jorge - TASJ |
| Registration: | CP-1960 |
| MSN: | 18993 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1943 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-92 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 3 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near San Juan Ranch strip -
 Bolivia
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Test |
| Departure airport: | |
The no. 2 engine had been changed and a test flight was made. Shortly after takeoff the no1 engine backfired and smoke entered the cockpit. The engine was shut down and propeller feathered. A forced landing was made in swampy ground short of the runway.
Sources:
Scramble 165
Images:
photo (c) via Werner Fischdick; Rio de Janeiro-Jacarepaguá Airport; November 1978
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