ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 334311
Date: | Saturday 1 February 1958 |
Time: | |
Type: | Douglas DC-4 |
Owner/operator: | Loide Aéreo Nacional |
Registration: | PP-LEM |
MSN: | 18336 |
Year of manufacture: | 1944 |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 5 / Occupants: 67 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed, written off |
Category: | Accident |
Location: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU) -
Brazil
|
Phase: | Take off |
Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
Departure airport: | Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU/SBRJ) |
Destination airport: | Fortaleza-Pinto Martins Airport, CE (FOR/SBFZ) |
Narrative:During a night takeoff from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, the no. 4 engine failed. The crew abandoned the takeoff, reduced power and applied the brakes. At 100 m before the runway end a tyre from the landing gear burst, causing the DC-4 to run off the side of the runway bursting into flames.
PROBABLE CAUSE: "1) Failure of No.4 engine. 2) Malfunctioning of the starboard brakes."
Sources:
The Montreal Gazette - Feb 3, 1958 Location
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