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).

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

Date/time	Contributor	Updates
21-Mar-2010 03:44	TB	Added
21-Mar-2010 12:02	TB	Updated [Operator, Narrative]
08-May-2010 08:03	TB	Updated [Date, Operator, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Other fatalities, Location, Phase, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
08-May-2010 08:10	TB	Updated [Narrative]
28-May-2014 17:19	jorgetadeu7	Updated [Date, Source]
18-Apr-2015 17:13	TB	Updated [Operator, Source, Narrative]
19-Jul-2015 20:06	junior sjc	Updated [Location, Destination airport, Source, Narrative]
22-Aug-2016 18:31	TB	Updated [Source, Narrative]
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]