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Pan Am Flight 202[edit]

Pan American World Airways Flight 202 was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser aircraft that crashed in the Amazon Basin about 281 nautical miles (520 km) southwest of Carolina, Brazil on April 29, 1952. The accident happened en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, 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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Data Value
Date 29 Apr 1952
Aircraft Name The Good Hope[1]
Pilot Albert Grossarth, 37, La Grange Park, Ill.[1]
First officer Lewis A. Penn, 35, South Orange, NJ[1]
Second officer John Thomas Powell, 35, Brunswick, GA[1]
Engineer Officer Paul Leslie Stilphen, 37, Bridgeport, Conn.[1]
1st Flight Radio Engineer Leroy Holtzclaw, Burgin KY[1]
Purser Julio Hansen, Miami[1]
Purser Anthony Urda, Hialeah[1]
Steward Anthony Nasco, Jr., Miami[1] Native of Tampa.[2]
Stewardess Patricia Monaghan, Miami Springs, FL[1] Parents live in Elmhurst, Ill.[2]
Passenger Domingo Arpe and his 13-year-old son, Argentine Manufacturer[1]
Passenger Lockett Coleman, Brookline, Mass, a purchasing agent for Walter Baker Chocolate Company.[1]
Passenger James Clevenger of the Hershey Chocolate Co., Hershey PA.[1]
Passenger Marcel Francois Demuller, Toledo, OH, President and GM of the Willys-Overland Export Corp. of Canada[3]
Nearby Airfield Belem, Brazil, on the Brazilian coast at the mouth of the Amazon[1]
Possible emergency airfield Barreiras, normal route would have slightly west of this airstrip.[1]
USAF Rescue Officer Spokesman Col. Archibald D. Odom of the Air Force Rescue Service.[4]
Kidnapped CAA Official Scott Magness, Miami Springs.[5]
Kidnapped Brazilian Major Maj. Miranda Correa[5]
Chief Adviser of the Miami International district CAA offices Gordon Bennett[5]
Leader of the rogue search party in Brazil Lino de Mattos, Sao Paulo deputy.[5]
Financer of the rogue search party in Brazil Dr. Adhemar de Barros, head of Aerovias Brazil, Brazilian international airline, fabulously wealthy, a former governor of Sao Paulo and prominent presidential candidate.[5]
Possible assassination plot victim Jorge de Godoy, conservative Brazilian Attorney General, said to have desperate enemies among red agents in Brazil and other South American countries.[6]
Brazilian Air Minister Nero Moura[7]
Location 1: Araguacema, an intermediate staging point on the Araguaia River located 523 miles south of Belem. Here an amphibious aircraft would be used to the village of Lago Grande, 85 miles south of Araguacema, and also along the Araguaia River, then a 35 mile foot trail to the wreckage site, 26 miles of which would be through dense jungle. Araguacema was the closest land plane landing strip to the crash site.
Location 2:

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  3. ^ a b Fernandez, Charles (2 May 1952). "Charred Airline Found in Brazil". The Miami Herald. p. 1. Retrieved 7 Mar 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b "Colonel Says PAA Plane Exploded Aloft". The Miami Herald (Street ed.). United Press. 3 May 1952. p. 1. Retrieved 7 Mar 2022 – via Newspapers.com.
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