What the records say
- When
- 25 Feb 1960
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 22.79° S, 43.16° W
- Description
- 1960 aviation accident
Placed at the coordinates of its Italian Wikipedia article.
1960 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision
1960 aviation accident
The 1960 Rio de Janeiro mid-air collision was an aerial collision between two aircraft over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on February 25, 1960. A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 (DC-6A) flying from Buenos Aires-Ezeiza to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão Air Force Base collided over Guanabara Bay, close to the Sugarloaf Mountain, with a Real Transportes Aéreos Douglas DC-3, registration PP-AXD, operating flight 751 from Campos dos Goy…
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A Real Transportes Aéreos DC-3 collides with a US Navy DC-6 over Rio de Janeiro and crashes into Guanabara Bay, killing 66 people on board”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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