Airplane Crash - Rid De Janeiro, Brazil 12/22/1959
Details of airplane crash/ shootdown - Rid de Janeiro, Brazil
Date | 12/22/1959 |
Location | Rid de Janeiro, Brazil |
Operator | VASP |
Route | Rio de Janeiro - Sao Paulo |
Type | Vickers Viscount 827 / Fokker AT-6 |
Registration | PP-SRG |
Cn/In | 401 |
Aboard | 33 |
Fatalities | 33 |
Ground | 10 |
Summary | Midair collision with a Brazilian Air Force AT-6 Harvard, shortly after takeoff. One killed in the fighter. Failure of both pilots to see and avoid each other. |
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