ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341122
| Date: | Monday 22 February 1943 |
| Time: | 18:47 |
| Type: |  Boeing 314A |
| Owner/operator: | Pan American Airways (Pan Am) |
| Registration: | NC18603 |
| MSN: | 1990 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1939 |
| Total airframe hrs: | 8505 hours |
| Engine model: | Wright R-2600-3 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 24 / Occupants: 39 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | off Lisboa -
 Portugal
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| Phase: | Approach |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Horta Airport, Azores (HOR/LPHR) |
| Lisboa-Cabo Ruivo Seaplane Base | |
| Investigating agency: | CAB |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
Crashed while attempting to land when the left wingtip of the aircraft contacted the water of the River Tagus during a descending turn.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "An inadvertent contact of the left wing tip of the aircraft with the water while making a descending turn preparatory to landing."
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
CAB File No. 2143-43
Location
Images:
photo (c) Naval History and Heritage Command; off Lisboa; February 1943
photo (c) Harris & Ewing; 1939; (publicdomain)
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