VASP Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF accident
Viação Aérea São Paulo Curtiss C-46A-40-CU · The VASP Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF accident occurred on 16 August 1964
From Carolina Airport, Brazil to Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport (BEL)
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 3
- 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-40-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-NMF
- Operator
- Viação Aérea São Paulo
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Carolina Airport, BrazilTo Val de Cans/Júlio Cezar Ribeiro International Airport (BEL)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft propeller/rotor
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Not plotted · Not plotted: the Wikipedia article gives no coordinates, and its site names no town or airport that matches exactly.
From the Wikipedia article
The VASP Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF accident occurred on 16 August 1964. On that day, a Curtiss C-46A-40-CU of Viação Aérea São Paulo, which was on a cargo flight from Carolina Airport to Belém Airport, had to ditch in the Capim River after an engine fire had occurred during the flight. One crew member died in the ditching.
Accident sequence
On the flight from Carolina to Belem, the C-46 experienced engine problems. The engine caught fire and exploded. The propeller of the affected engine could not be feathered. The Curtiss lost altitude, whereupon the crew felt compelled to jettison the cargo and ditch the aircraft on the Capim River. The C-46 sank within 15 minutes. One crew member who was not wearing a seat belt was killed on impact.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the accident was determined to be a failure of the propeller.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall der Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF der VASP” (revision 268423107, 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 der Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF der VASP
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 268423107 · 2026-07-02 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q124467025
- 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 der Curtiss C-46 PP-NMF der VASP" (page 12892570, revision 268423107), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- none
- 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): A VASP C-46 on a cargo flight between two Brazilian airports: an airline cargo flight. The article: "a Curtiss C-46A-40-CU of Viação Aérea São Paulo, which was on a cargo flight from Carolina Airport to Belém Airport"
- 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.