ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 341416
Date: | Saturday 13 June 1942 |
Time: | |
Type: | Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina |
Owner/operator: | United States Navy |
Registration: | 7252 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 7 / Occupants: 10 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Maxaranguape, RN -
Brazil
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Phase: | Approach |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Belém/Val-de-Cans International Airport, PA (BEL/SBBE) |
Destination airport: | Natal Airport, RN (NAT/SBNT) |
Narrative:Crashed after encountering a severe thunderstorm. The airplane came down in sea five miles from Natal. The Catalina was part of group being ferried from Norfolk NAS to Natal, Brazil.
Probable cause: Flying at low altitude in heavy rain and rough air, the pilot temporarily lost his horizon and put plane in glide into water.
Sources:
US Navy and US Marine Corps Aircraft Serial Numbers and Bureau Numbers--1911 to Present / Joe Baugher US Navy PBY Catalina Units of the Atlantic War / Ragnar Ragnarsson
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