Porto Alegre – São Borja

On July 30, 1950 at 01:00 PM, Porto Alegre – São Borja experienced a crash involving Lockheed 18 LodeStar, operated by Sociedade Anônima Viação Aérea Gaúcha - SAVAG, with the event recorded near São Francisco de Assis Rio Grande do Sul.

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

12 people were known to be on board, 12 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: 10, passenger fatalities: 10, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. The twin engine aircraft left Porto Alegre around 1100LT bound for São Borja with an IFR flight plan filed at an altitude of 4,500 feet. Few minutes later, the captain requested to continue in VFR when he encountered poor visibility. The aircraft christened 'São Pedro do Rio Grande' was flying in clouds when it hit the slope of the Cerro Cortelini located near São Francisco de Assis. All 12 occupants were killed, among them Gustavo Ernesto de Carvalho Kraemer, captain and founder of the Sociedade Anônima Viação Aérea Gaúcha (SAVAG) and Joaquim Pedro Salgado Filho, senator and ex Minister of Aviation. They were returning to São Borja after they visited the site where a Panair Constellation crashed two days earlier.

Aircraft reference details include registration PP-SAA, MSN 18-2133, year of manufacture 1941.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -29.5592°, -55.1210°.