![]() ![]() ![]() All 26 passengers and crew of the Brazilian aircraft die. Of the 38 occupants of the American aircraft, 3 survive. Main article: 1960 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision United States Navy Douglas R6D-1, BuNo 131582, flying from Buenos Aires – Ezeiza to Galeão International Airport/Galeão Air Force Base collides in mid-air over Guanabara Bay near Sugarloaf Mountain with a Real Transportes Aéreos Douglas DC-3, registration PP-AXD, flying from Campos dos Goytacazes to Rio de Janeiro – Santos Dumont Airport. Walter Jefferson, Jr., pilot of the aircraft, Tulsa, Okla 2d Lt. One crew and nine passengers presumed dead. Information on aircraft gives the type, and if available, the serial number of the operator in italics, the constructors number, also known as the manufacturer's serial number (c/n), exterior codes in apostrophes, nicknames (if any) in quotation marks, flight callsign in italics, and operating units.ġ960 4 January Three United States Army de Havilland Canada U-1A Otters, of the 329th Engineer Detachment, fly from Wheelus Air Base to Bengazi, Libya, but 55-2974 disappears over the Gulf of Sirte in the Mediterranean in a storm Prague. ![]()
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