São Paulo – Recife

On July 15, 1968 at 12:00 AM, São Paulo – Recife experienced a crash involving Curtiss C-46 Commando, operated by VARIG - Viação Aérea Rio Grandense, with the event recorded near Gravatá Pernambuco.

The flight was categorized as cargo and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

3 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

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

While on a cargo flight from São Paulo to Recife, the airplane crashed in unknown circumstances in the Coelhos Mountain Range, near Gravatá. All three crew members were killed.

Aircraft reference details include registration PP-VBJ, MSN 33481, year of manufacture 1945.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -8.1990°, -35.5627°.