Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro

On January 28, 1969 at 12:00 AM, Rio de Janeiro - Rio de Janeiro experienced a crash involving Grumman S-2 Tracker, operated by Brazilian Air Force - Força Aérea Brasileira, with the event recorded near Ilha Grande Rio de Janeiro.

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

4 people were known to be on board, 4 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 4, crew fatalities: 4, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

Few minutes after its takeoff from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão Airport, the twin engine airplane crashed in unknown circumstances into the sea some 30 km off Ilha Grande. All four crew members were killed, among them Lt Luís Gonzaga Villas Boas, pilot, and 2nd Lt José Roberto Mendes Pereira da Ponte, copilot.

Aircraft reference details include registration 7022, MSN 751, year of manufacture 1958.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -23.1555°, -44.2345°.