Date: | Thursday 26 June 1941 |
Time: | 15:15 |
Type: | Sikorsky S-43 |
Owner/operator: | Pan American Grace Airways (Panagra) |
Registration: | NC16928 |
MSN: | 4317 |
Year of manufacture: | 1936 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 4 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU) -
Brazil
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Phase: | Landing |
Nature: | Training |
Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
Destination airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
Confidence Rating: | Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Narrative:The aircraft had taken off about 14:15 for a local practice flight out of Rio de Janeiro. Instrument approaches and landings were to be practiced in Guanabara Bay.
During one of those approaches and landings the S-43 contacted the water in a nose down attitude. As the bow wave build op, the nose became more depressed. It then overturned and sank
PROBABLE CAUSE: "Pilot's error in judging altitude during a landing." Contributing factor: Glassy surface of the water.
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