Accident near Barra do Bugres
Paraense Transportes Aéreos Curtiss C-46A-50-CU · The accident near Barra do Bugres occurred on 12 August 1965
From Várzea Grande–Marechal Rondon International Airport (CGB) to Governador Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira International Airport (PVH)
Event
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 13 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Airline
Curtiss C-46A-50-CU
- Aircraft type
- Curtiss C-46
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- PP-BTH
- Operator
- Paraense Transportes Aéreos
- Onboard fatalities
- 13
- Route
- From Várzea Grande–Marechal Rondon International Airport (CGB)To Governador Jorge Teixeira de Oliveira International Airport (PVH)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Aircraft › Aircraft systems
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Barra do Bugres, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The accident near Barra do Bugres occurred on 12 August 1965. On that day, a Curtiss C-46A-50-CU of Paraense Transportes Aéreos, which was on a cargo flight from Cuiabá to Porto Velho, crashed after an engine fire had occurred in flight. The aircraft crashed to the ground out of control, being completely destroyed, and all 13 occupants died.
Accident sequence
The aircraft took off at 06:21 from Cuiabá-Marechal Rondon Airport on a flight to Porto Velho Airport. A flight plan was filed providing for a flight under instrument flight rules. When the aircraft was near Barra do Bugres about 30 minutes after takeoff, the pilots noticed a fire on the left engine and turned the aircraft around. While the left engine was burning, the pilots endeavoured to fly back to Cuiabá Airport. Near Buraçao the aircraft structure was so weakened that the left wing and the engine broke off. The aircraft crashed to the ground out of control at around 11 o'clock local time; all 13 occupants were killed on impact.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The accident investigation found that the accident was caused by broken bolts in cylinder No. 8 of the engine. A further cause of the accident was said to have been a defective fire detection and extinguishing system.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall bei Barra do Bugres” (revision 252158886, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall bei Barra do Bugres
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 252158886 · 2025-01-11 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q125056578
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall bei Barra do Bugres" (page 12892316, revision 252158886), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- centre of the town the Wikipedia infobox site names (GeoNames, CC BY 4.0)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): An air transport company's C-46 flying cargo between two airports under a filed flight plan: a commercial cargo flight. The article: "a Curtiss C-46A-50-CU of Paraense Transportes Aéreos, which was on a cargo flight from Cuiabá to Porto Velho"
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.