Santiago – Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Recife – Natal – Dakar – Casablanca – Alicante – Toulouse – Paris

On February 27, 1932 at 12:00 AM, Santiago – Buenos Aires – Montevideo – Recife – Natal – Dakar – Casablanca – Alicante – Toulouse – Paris experienced a crash involving Latécoère 28, operated by L'Aéropostale, with the event recorded near Guarapari Espírito Santo.

The flight was categorized as postal (mail) and the reported phase was flight at a lake, sea, ocean, river 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.

The listed crash cause is weather. While flying along the Brazilian coast, the crew encountered poor weather conditions with thunderstorm activity, heavy rain falls and turbulences. Control was lost and the airplane crashed into the ocean off Guarapari. Few debris and all three dead bodies were found on a beach off Sarita near Setiba four days later, on March 2. Crew: Pierre Barbier, pilot, Victor Hamm, pilot, Georges Gourbeyre, radio navigator.

Aircraft reference details include registration F-AJOX, MSN 917, year of manufacture 1930.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -20.6542°, -40.4902°.