Airplane Crash - Jaquirana, Brazil 08/02/1949
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Jaquirana, Brazil
| Date | 08/02/1949 |
| Time | 11:30 |
| Location | Jaquirana, Brazil |
| Operator | Varig |
| Route | Sao Paulo - Porto Alegre |
| Type | Curtiss C-46D-10-CU |
| Registration | PP-VBI |
| Cn/In | 33100 |
| Aboard | 36 |
| Fatalities | 5 |
| Ground | 0 |
| Summary | Twenty minutes before arriving a Porto Alegre, a fire was discovered in cargo hold 'G.' The pilot executed an emergency descent while the crew tried to extinguish the flames to no avail. As the plane attempted to land, the panicking passengers rushed to the front of the plane to escape the flames causing the center of gravity to change, resulting in a hard landing. The cause of the fire in the hold 'G' was not determined. |
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