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Date: | Friday 8 November 1940 |
Time: | day |
Type: | de Havilland DH.90A Dragonfly |
Owner/operator: | Shell-Mex Argentina Ltda |
Registration: | LV-KAB |
MSN: | 7563 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Other fatalities: | 18 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | Botafogo Bay, off Rio de Janeiro, RJ -
Brazil
|
Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Executive |
Departure airport: | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Destination airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport (SBRJ) |
Narrative:c/no 7563 (Gipsy Major #80156/80157) To Eagle Oil, Argentina with C of A 6218 issued 4.3.38. Registered as LV-KAB 10.5.38 to Shell Mex Argentina Ltda, (t/a Eagle Oil), Buenos Aires. Erected and test flown 21.5.38; named “Gavilan de la Selva” [“Jungle Hawk”]
Written off (destroyed) 8.11.40 in a collision: The DH.90 was approaching Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport when it collided at a height of 1,500 feet with a Junkers Ju.52 of VASP, registered PP-SPF; the three engine aircraft was en route to Sao Paulo with 18 people on board. After the collision, both aircraft crashed into the Botafogo Bay, killing all 19 occupants.
Causes: Both crews did not see each other due to the poor visibility caused by the presence of clouds at low altitude. Pilot of LV-KAB was J. Abbot (employee of the Shell Oil Co).
Sources:
1. World Directory of Airliners Crashes/Terry Denham
2. Folha da Manhã 9 November 1940
3. Germano da Silva, Carlos Ari César (2008). "Vizinhança perigosa" (in Portuguese). O rastro da bruxa: história da aviação comercial brasileira no século XX através dos seus acidentes 1928–1996 (2 ed.). Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. pp. 33–36. ISBN 978-85-7430-760-2.
4.
http://www.santafe.gov.ar/hemerotecadigital/diario/19037/?page=2 5.
https://www.baaa-acro.com/crash/crash-de-havilland-dh90-dragonfly-rio-de-janeiro-1-killed 6.
https://air-britain.com/pdfs/production-lists/DH90.pdf 7.
http://www.airhistory.org.uk/dh/p075.html 8.
http://www.planecrashinfo.com/1940/1940-21.htm 9.
http://www.santafe.gov.ar/hemerotecadigital/diario/4111/ 10.
https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Santos_Dumont_Airport#Accidents_and_incidents 11.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botafogo Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
21-Mar-2010 03:44 |
TB |
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21-Mar-2010 12:02 |
TB |
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08-May-2010 08:03 |
TB |
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08-May-2010 08:10 |
TB |
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28-May-2014 17:19 |
jorgetadeu7 |
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18-Apr-2015 17:13 |
TB |
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19-Jul-2015 20:06 |
junior sjc |
Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
22-Aug-2016 18:31 |
TB |
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22-Jan-2018 21:30 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Time, Location, Nature, Destination airport, Source, Narrative] |
16-Nov-2022 01:14 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Departure airport, Source, Narrative, Category] |
16-Nov-2022 01:17 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Source] |
16-Nov-2022 01:18 |
Dr. John Smith |
Updated [Aircraft type, Operator] |