ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 336412
| Date: | Thursday 5 May 1949 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Curtiss C-46A-5-CK Commando |
| Owner/operator: | O. Steiner |
| Registration: | PP-DKF |
| MSN: | 52 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
| Engine model: | Pratt & Whitney R-2800-51 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 6 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | near Abaetetuba, PA -
 Brazil
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | |
| Belém (unknown airport), PA |
The C-46 transport plane was flying a cargo of meat from an airport in Goiás State to Belém, Brazil.
It crashed on the right bank of Rio Moju, near Abaetatuba, southwest of Belém. The wreckage was located by a Brazilian Air Force plane. Pilot Pedro Steiner Filho and passenger Salomão Solíno died. Co-pilot Alfredo Avelino and three other passengers injured and transported to Belém by ship.
Sources:
A Noite 7 May 1949, p2
Correio da Manhã 7 May 1949, p5
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