| - | ACCIDENT DETAILS |
| Date: | July 27, 1952 |
| Time: | 11:46 |
| Location: | Off Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Operator: | Pan American World Airways |
| Flight #: | 201 |
| Route: | Rio de Janeiro - Buenos Aires |
| AC Type: | Boeing 377 Stratocruiser |
| Registration: | N1030V |
| cn / ln: | 15939 |
| Aboard: | 27 (passengers:19 crew:8) |
| Fatalities: | 1 (passengers:1 crew:0) |
| Ground: | 0 |
| Summary: | A woman was sucked out of the plane . The flight engineer's failure to recognize an unsafe condition of the cabin door despite three completely separate warnings of that condition and the captain's action in continuing flight while pressurized despite the several warnings that the main cabin door was not properly locked. |
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