ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336394
| Date: | Monday 6 June 1949 |
| Time: | 14:00 |
| Type: |  Douglas C-47B-50-DK (DC-3) |
| Owner/operator: | Força Aérea Brasileira - FAB |
| Registration: | 2023 |
| MSN: | 34365/17098 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1945 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-1830-90C |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 28 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | ca 20 km E of Florianópolis, SC -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Florianópolis Air Force Base, SC (FLN/SBFL) |
| Porto Alegre-Canoas Air Base, RS (SBCO) |
Shortly after takeoff from Florianópolis, the C-47 ran into heavy overcast. Eight minutes after takeoff and four minutes after the crew radioed that they were flying on instruments, the airplane flew into the side of Cambirela Peak.
Sources:
Peak Disaster (Time 20-06-1949)
Folha da Manhã 8 June 1949, p3
Location
Images:
photo (c) Silvio Adriani Cardoso/Arquivo da Biblioteca do Colégio Catarinense; ca 20 km E of Florianópolis, SC; June 1949
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