Asunción – Rio de Janeiro – Belém – Miami

On December 22, 1957 at 12:00 AM, Asunción – Rio de Janeiro – Belém – Miami experienced a crash involving Curtiss C-46 Commando, operated by Paraguay Air Services, with the event recorded near Aracruz Espírito Santo.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

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

The listed crash cause is terrorism act, hijacking, sabotage. The aircraft was performing a cargo flight from Asunción to Miami with intermediate stops at Rio de Janeiro and Belém. It left Santos Dumont Airport at Rio de Janeiro at 1752LT bound to the northeast. While cruising along the shore, the airplane went out of control and crashed into the sea off Aracruz. All five occupants were killed. It was reported the aircraft was carrying a load of 140 kg of platine and about 70 millions of US$ in cash.

Aircraft reference details include registration ZP-CBM, MSN 30554, year of manufacture 1944.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -19.8219°, -40.2771°.