Belém – Marabá

On July 12, 1956 at 12:00 AM, Belém – Marabá experienced a crash involving Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina, operated by TICAL, with the event recorded near Marabá Pará.

The flight was categorized as scheduled revenue flight and the reported phase was landing (descent or approach) at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 1 fatalities were recorded, 4 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 20.0%.

Crew on board: 3, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 2, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is technical failure. On approach to Marabá, both engines failed. The crew elected to make an emergency landing when the seaplane crashed into the Río Tocantins. A crewman was killed while four other occupants were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration PT-ASN, MSN 1792, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -5.3463°, -49.1007°.