ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341745
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| 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) |
| Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
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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