Welcome to the forum, Jen.
I presume your grandfather’s accident would have been FAMA’s Avro York LV-XIG hitting the Pico do Papagaio in bad weather on approach to Rio de Janeiro that day? This would seem to have been an interesting service, starting in London the day before, with stops at Paris, Dakar, Natal (Brazil) and Rio with a destination of Buenos Aires. I think (but am sure other will correct or confirm) this was the inaugural transatlantic flight for FAMA, pioneering the UK-Argentina route.
A quick search shows the following names of passengers and crew aboard the flight:
– Enrique Lacroix (a FAMA representative), who survived the crash, but later died of his injuries
– Claudio Mendoza Rios (a lieutenant in the Peruvian air force) who was injured severly, but was the sole survivor
– Arturo Fassio (the Argentine ambassador to Portugal at the time)
– Derek Norman James (captain)
Perhaps a good place to start archive-wise would be the Brazilian national aviation museum?
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