- ACCIDENT DETAILS
Date: December 22, 1959
Time: ?
Location: Rid de Janeiro, Brazil
Operator: VASP
Flight #: ?
Route: Rio de Janeiro - Sao Paulo
AC Type: Vickers Viscount 827 / Fokker AT-6
Registration: PP-SRG
cn / ln: 401
Aboard: 33   (passengers:26  crew:7)
Fatalities: 33   (passengers:26  crew:7)
Ground: 10
Summary: Midair collision with a Brazilian Air Force AT-6 Harvard, shortly after takeoff. One killed in the fighter. Failure of both pilots to see and avoid each other.
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