Panair do Brasil aircraft accident near Manaus
| Panair do Brasil aircraft accident near Manaus | |
|---|---|
 A Lockheed L-049 Constellation of the Panair do Brasil, similar to the accident machine |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place |
Paraná da Eva , Amazon , Brazil
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| date | December 14, 1962 |
| Fatalities | 50 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Lockheed L-049 Constellation
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| operator |
Panair do Brasil
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| Mark |
PP-PDE
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| Surname | Estêvão Ribeiro Baião Parente |
| Departure airport |
Belém Airport , Pará , Brazil
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| Destination airport |
Manaus / Ponta Pelada Airport , Amazonas , Brazil
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| Passengers | 43 |
| crew | 7th |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The air accident of Panair do Brasil in Manaus took place on 14 December 1962 when a passenger plane of Panair do Brasil type Lockheed L-049 Constellation on a scheduled flight from Belem to Manaus in the Brazilian state of Amazonas strayed from its flight path and in the Amazon region , in Paraná da Eva , had an accident. All 50 people on board the machine were killed in the accident.
plane
The machine was a Lockheed L-049 Constellation with the serial number 2047, which was finally assembled at the Lockheed plant in Burbank , California in mid-1945 . The machine was built for Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) and was delivered to them on March 8, 1946 with the aircraft registration number N88847 . The Pan Am converted the aircraft produced as the Lockheed L-149 Constellation after delivery to the Lockheed L-049 Constellation and gave the machine the name Clipper Hotspur . When the airline passed the aircraft on to its subsidiary Panair do Brasil , the Constellation came to Brazil, where operations began on July 30, 1953 with the new registration number PP-PDE and the new name Estêvão Ribeiro Baião Parente . The four-engine long - haul aircraft was equipped with four air-cooled 18-cylinder twin star engines of the Curtiss-Wright R-3350-BD1 type, each with an output of 2500 hp (1838 kW).
Passengers and crew
There were 43 passengers and a crew of seven on board the machine.
the accident
After taking off from Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont airport on the morning of December 13, 1962, the plane flew to the airports of several cities in Brazil as part of intermediate stops until it took the flight from Belém to Manaus at 23:31 local time last flight segment of the trip. The flight of this section was supposed to take three hours, the machine followed the Amber 1 airway. At 01:04 local time on December 14, 1962, the pilots reported to air traffic control at the destination airport that they were still six minutes away. The pilots asked to turn on the runway lights. At 01:19 a.m. local time, the crew reported again to air traffic control and asked the air traffic controller on duty whether the aircraft's engine noise could be heard at the airport. The pilot said no and asked why the crew was asking this question. There was no further radio communication between the machine and air traffic control afterwards. The wreck of the machine was found on December 15, 1962, 45 kilometers from Manaus, near the municipality of Rio Preto da Eva .
Salvage
Since the scene of the accident was difficult to reach and part of the hull was in an intact condition, the possibility that survivors could be found was initially considered. A team of doctors, technicians, employees from Panair do Brasil, Petrobras and soldiers was sent into the jungle and was only able to reach the wreck site on December 20th. No survivors were found among the 44 passengers and 6 crew members of the Constellation PP-PDE .
root cause
The aircraft had flown into trees in level flight and in cruise configuration. A controlled flight into terrain could be determined as the type of accident, the exact cause of which could not be determined, although several hypotheses were made.
This was the last fatal accident involving a Panair do Brasil aircraft. A few years later the company was dissolved by the military regime and the routes were given to the Varig , while the remaining aircraft were redistributed to other airlines or scrapped.
swell
- Accident report L-049, PP-PDE , Aviation Safety Network
- Crash of a Lockheed L-049-46-21 Constellation near Manaus: 50 killed , B3A - Bureau of Aircraft Accident Archvives
- Accident report No. 26 , ICAO Circular 71 / AN-63. Pp. 145-146.
- Production list and operating history of the machine , rzjets.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carlos Ari Cesar Germano da Silva (2008): O rastro da bruxa: história da aviação comercial brasileira no século XX através dos seus acidentes. Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS, pages 223-228.
- ↑ ICAO Aircraft Accident Digest No. 14 Volume II, Circular 71-AN / 63, Montreal 1966 (English), p. 146.
- ^ Jornal do Brasil: Panair encerra atividade. February 11, 1965, accessed August 4, 2020 .