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Date:	Friday 26 August 1955
Time:
Type:	Douglas DC-3A
Owner/operator:	Cruzeiro do Sul
Registration:	PP-CBY
MSN:	11692
Year of manufacture:	1943
Fatalities:	Fatalities: 13 / Occupants: 13
Other fatalities:	0
Aircraft damage:	Destroyed, written off
Category:	Accident
Location:	near Castelo, ES - Brazil
Phase:	En route
Nature:	Passenger - Scheduled
Departure airport:	Campos dos Goitacazes-Bartolomeu Lisandro Airport, RJ (CAW/SBCP)
Destination airport:	Caravelas Airport, BA (CRQ/SBCV)
Confidence Rating:	Accident investigation report completed and information captured

Narrative:
The Cruzeiro flight departed Rio de Janeiro for an IFR flight to Campos, Caravelas, Ilhéus and Salvador, Brazil.
Last contact with the flight was when after departure from Campos at 1500 m. The DC-3 was later found to have struck a mountain in the Serra do Costelo between the cities of Castelo and Cachoeiro de Itapemirim.

PROBABLE CAUSE: "The accident was due to the Forno Grande peak not being indicated on current charts, the flight being conducted outside the airway and failure to adhere to he approved flight plan."

Sources:

ICAO Accident Digest Circular 50-AN/45 (172)
Folha da Manhã 27-8-1955
Folha da Manhã 28-8-1955

Statistics

26^th worst accident in 1955
446^th worst accident of this aircraft type
289^th worst accident of this aircraft type at the time

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