AIRCRAFT STOLEN
Revolt In Brazil (Rec. 7 p.m.) RIO DE JANEIRO, December 3. Brazilian Air Force officers seized several Air Force aeroplanes and hijacked a fourengined passenger airliner today in a revolt against President Juscelino Kubitschek.
The civilian aeroplane, a Constellation belonging to Pan-air Do Brasil, had 38 passengers and a crew of six aboard for a flight from Rio to Belem.
The aeroplane left Rio de Janeiro last night and was due at its destination on the mouth of the Amazon early today. First messages from there suggested the aeroplane had crashed 20 minutes before the scheduled landing time, American Associated Press said. But the Air Force later said Air Force men connected with the revolt managed somehow to force the aeroplane hundreds of miles off course to the town of Aragarcas. The passengers and crew were put off and the airliner seized, an Air Force spokesman said. Three and perhaps four Brazilian Air Force aircraft were reported earlier to have been seized and flown off to the north in connexion with the revolt.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29070, 5 December 1959, Page 13
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