What the records say
- When
- 29 Apr 1952
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 9.75° S, 50.78° W
- Description
- aviation accident
- Deaths
- 50
- Injured
- 0
Pan Am Flight 202
1952 aviation accident
Pan American World Airways Flight 202 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that crashed in the Amazon Basin about 281 nautical miles southwest of Carolina, Brazil, on April 29, 1952. The accident happened en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, during the third leg of a four-leg journey. All 50 people on board were killed in the deadliest-ever accident involving the Boeing 377.
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