THREE-ENGINES-OUT DITCHING
Credit: GERALDO W. KNIPPLING
In the late 1950s, Brazil's Varig Airlines was competing successfully with Pan American on the Rio de Janeiro (RIO)-to-New York route--in spite of Varig's new Lockheed "Super-Constellation G" and its complicated, unreliable, turbo-compound engines. We departed RIO on Aug. 16, 1957, bound for Belem...
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