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Pan Am Flight 202 crashes into the Amazon basin near Carolina, Maranhão, Brazil, killing 50 people.
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Amazon basin
Major drainage basin in South America
The Amazon basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The Amazon drainage basin covers an area of about 7,000,000 km2 (2,700,000 sq mi), or about 35.5 percent of the South American continent. It is located in the countries of Bolivia,…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Carolina, Maranhão
Municipality in Nordeste, Brazil
Carolina is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
April 29
Day of the year
April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 246 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)