Brazil

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    Two Lost in Ultralight in Brazilian Rice Field


    What: Starflight Fox V6 Super #PU-ANG
    Where: Araranguá, southern Santa Catarina Brazil
    When: April 8 2012
    Who: 2 fatalities
    Why: The ultralight was in Araranguá between the towns of Marazion and in Santa Catarina when it crashed in a rice paddy that backs up to highway BR-101. Both the pilot and passenger, Pereira de Souza, 45, and Antonio Carlos Bernardino, 30, died at the scene. Bernardino owned the ultralight and the two regularly flew together. Both victims were residents of Araranguá and in an Araranguá flying club. They were taken to Instituto Médico Legal (Forensic Institute).

    Witnesses say the plane just fell from the sky into the rice field. The incident occurred at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday.

    The accident is under investigations; preliminary findings are due within thirty days.

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    Ground Resonance Rattles Brazilian Chopper to Bits


    What: Corpo de Bombeiros Militar do Estado do Pará Helibras HB 350BA Esquilo
    Where: Benevides Brazil
    When: Feb 22, 2012
    Who: 4 aboard, no fatalities
    Why: The rescue chopper vibrated itself apart after landing.

    “Ground resonance” occurs when a sitting helicopter’s rotors become unbalanced while spinning. A resident expert says this can happen because of a hard landing; the best way to get it to stop is to pull collective and break contact with the ground. (At the time, that would feel counter intuitive, I would think!)

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    Beechcraft Baron Crashes in Brazil killing 4

    What: Norte Táxi Aéreo Beechcraft 95-B55 Baron en route from Cametá to Baião
    Where: Cametá, PA Brazil
    When: Feb 16 2012, 10:00 am
    Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
    Why: The Taxi service plane crashed not long after takeoff, killing the pilot, copilot and two security guards who worked transporting money for a bank. A fire ensued after the crash, and rescuers found the bodies were charred.

    The crash occurred a kilometer from the runway. The airport fire department team responded. Seripa (regional research and prevention of Aviation Accidents) is investigating.

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    Psychotic Attacks Pilot Aboard Tam Flight


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    Contact photographer Leandro Luiz Pilch

    What: TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200 en route from Montevideo to Sao Paulo
    Where: Porto Alegre
    When: Feb 11th 2012
    Who: 1 unruly passenger
    Why: A Tam airbus was en route when a passenger intruded into the cockpit. The pilot yelled for help, and the plane veered sharply to the right. The cockpit door was open. Some reports of the incident mention that the passenger had a TAM badge. (Some Uraguan accounts say the individual was flying in the cockpit on a jumpseat.)

    We don’t have a firsthand account, but secondary sources say a couple of stewardesses dragged the intruder out of the cockpit by his feet, then “The people quickly jumped on top of him, the guy fought back furiously, biting and hurting a half dozen people…in a kind of collective action they were able to immobilize him, tying him to a seat.”

    Passengers talked about the incident feeling like a September 911 film.

    The pilot diverted to Porto Alegre and made a safe landing. A number of passengers and possibly the two flight attendants were injured in the altercation. The passenger was taken into police custody, and he was incarcerated in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital for having suffered a “psychotic episode.”

    The flight reached Sao Paulo nearly three hours late.

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    Gol Hydraulic Issue in Sao Paulo


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    Contact photographer Fabricio Lucio

    What: GOL Transportes Aereos Boeing 737-800 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Sao Paulo
    Where: Sao Paulo
    When: Feb 6th 2012
    Why: On approach to Sao Paulo, the plane developed problems with the plane’s hydraulic systems. After making a safe landing, the plane was stuck on the runway. Eventually the plane was towed, and the patient passengers were able to disembark (after half an hour.)

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    Brazil Flight Encounters Severe Turbulence


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    Contact photographer Matheus Netto de Lima

    What: Trip Linhas Aereas Embraer ERJ-190 en route from Porto Velho to Belo Horizonte
    Where: Cuiaba
    When: Feb 5th 2012
    Who: 82 passengers and 5 crew; 6 injured
    Why: While en route, the flight encountered turbulence.

    Five passengers and one attendant were injured.

    The pilots diverted to Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, Brazil where they made a safe landing.

    None of the injured passengers were buckled in at the time of the turbulence. On landing, the injured were hospitalized.

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    Aerolineas Bird Strike Leads to Emergency Landing in Sao Paulo


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    Contact photographer Simón Blaise

    What: Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 737-700 en route from Sao Paulo Brazil to Buenos Aires Argentina
    Where: Sao Paulo
    When: Feb 2nd 2012
    Why: After takeoff from Sao Paulo, the flight suffered an bird strike, which disabled it. The vibrating engine had to be shut down. Pilots returned to Sao Paulo a quarter of an hour after leaving.

    Passengers were provided alternative transport.

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    Bumpy Brazil Air Leaves American Airlines Flight All Shook up


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    Contact photographer Terry Wade

    What: American Airlines Boeing 757-200 en route from Recife, Brazil to Miami,FL
    Where: Brazil
    When: Jan 22nd 2012
    Who: 136 passengers, 9 crew
    Why: A couple of hours into the flight, the crew ran into some turbulence.

    It was severe turbulence that according to passengers “felt like the floor fell out from under,” and which knocked around a couple of flight attendants. A number of unseat-belted people hit the ceiling, including a flight attendant who actually knocked a hole in the ceiling before her trolley landed on her. (I presume she’s one of the five who went to the hospital.) Those trolleys look heavy.

    The extent of injuries was not released, but it was apparently not severe enough that they had to scramble to divert to somewhere in the Brazilian bush.

    One of the passengers happened to be an ER doctor, and he administered first aid. A number of the uninjured were said to be hysterical.

    Miami-Dade Fire Department and Airport Fire and Rescue were on the scene. In Miami, five flight attendants went straight into ambulances and one was treated at the airport.

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    Brazil Crash Kills Three, Including Politician

    What: Beechcraft A36 Bonanza en route from Pontes e Lacerda to Santa Fé do Sul
    Where: Caceres, Brazil
    When: 14-JAN-2012, 8 am
    Who: 3 aboard, 3 fatalities
    Why: A plane piloted by Antonio Carlos Lopes do Amaral (Carlos Lopes Antonio Amaral) 57, former president of the Mato Grosso state legislature crashed in Mato Grosso in torrential rain, killing all three aboard. The crash site was a ranch located 12 miles from downtown Caceres, Site Sao Paulo, San Francisco community. Also killed were Vitório Quarentão and João Batista Paulo do Carmo.

    Local witnesses heard the engine sputter or fail three times before it went into a tailspin and fell into a marshy area.

    The wreckage shattered, and it appears that DNA testing will have to be used.

    Amaral has sister in Caceres, businesswoman Maridalva Vignard Amaral, owns a radio station. The family said Amaral’s body and his friend Victor will be transferred to Santa Fe do Sul via plane and taken to counter Pontes e Lacerda.

    A team from the Department of Civil Aviation will be arriving in Caceres to start investigating the cause of the accident. Amaral leaves a wife and three children. John was single.

    The plane is registered to Air Martins School of Civil Aviation.

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    Turkish Harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoglu Returns Home


    Another victim is laid to rest in the ongoing saga of Air France Flight 447. This victim is neither Brazilian nor French. Among those whose remains were recently recovered and identified, Harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoglu was returned to Turkey on November 22, 2011, nearly two and a half years after the June 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447.

    When she went to the Rio Harp Festival to perform two recitals, she never expected to be returning as a memory.

    After a ceremony at Sisli’s Tesvikiye Mosque, Necipoglu was laid to rest. She was a 1999 graduate of the Department of Harp in Louisiana State University’s School of Music and piano and harp lecturer at the Anadolu University.

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    Poconé Crash Kills Brazilian Farmer Minutes from Airport

    What: Cessna 210
    Where: Poconé Municipal Airport, Brazil
    When: Nov 12 2011
    Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
    Why: Twelve miles from the airport, the pilot apparently lost control and crashed. The plane took off at 5:12 pm, and crashed 12 km later in the Pantanal region of Mato Grosso.

    Martin Wagner, his son James, two mechanics named Dede and Alcindo died in the crash.

    Wagner, who is a local cattle farmer, was reported missing by his family, after which a search plane was sent out and did not locate them. The charred wreckage of the plane was located the next day after sunrise, only minutes from the airport. The owner of the plane died in the crash.

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    Brazil Runway Overrun, No Injuries


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    Contact photographer Tsuyoshi Hayasaki – AroundWorldImages

    What: Passaredo Embraer ERJ-145 from Sao Paulo to Uberlandia
    Where: Uberlandia
    When: Nov 15th 2011
    Who: 27 passengers and 3 crew
    Why: Landing on the wet runway, the plane continued completely off the runway. There were no injuries.

    As the airport was closed for six hours afterwards, some passengers took alternative transport.

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    Updating the Brazilian Statistics on the body count/recovery

    Of the 58 Brazilians aboard the notorious Rio-Paris Air France Flight 447, 18 have been found and identified.

    Of the 153 victims, 74 reside on the ocean floor. Some of those may be the 40 lost Brazilians.

    During the recovery process, some families chose not to disturb the remains. Some of the bodies were simply lost at sea.

    There is still a lot of finger-pointing going on. Whatever the cause, Air France Flight 447 stalled and crashed in bad weather, killing 153.

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    Excuse me, Can you Show me the way to Teresina


    What: Azul Linhas Aereas Embraer ERJ-195 en route from Fortaleza to Teresina,PI Brazil
    Where: Timon and Teresina
    When: Oct 30th 2011
    Why: The pilots flying the Azul Linhas Aereas Embraer ERJ-195 made a perfect landing in Timon.

    Unfortunately, their destination was not Timon but Teresina.

    They made a 3.1 mile goof, and had to take off and fly the rest of the way to Teresina where they made a second safe landing, this one at the appropriate airport.

    In George’s Point of View


    I know it is ridiculous, but I can’t help but picture the pilots rolling up to a hanger bay, sitting in the cockpit with a roadmap out, and shouting out the window at passersby: Which way is Teresina?

    Glad to hear that the flight landed and took off safely and landed again.

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    Entrepreneur, Dies Piloting Plane, 2 Sons, Woman Passenger, 4 dead

    What: Pilot/operator Ângelo Rafaeli D’élia Beechcraft V35 Bonanza # PT-CTL en route from Ponta Porã to Viracopos-Campinas
    Where: Marabá Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
    When: October 1, 2011, 21:30
    Who: 4 fatalities
    Why: In the night, as rain was falling, the Beechcraft Bonanza en route for Campinas in Sao Paulo never made it to its destination, but crashed on farmland near Marabá Paulista, leaving a five foot crater. Four people died in the crash: entrepreneur Ângelo Rafaeli D’elia, 51, who was piloting the aircraft, the children Bruna D’Elia, 18 and Rafael Ângelo, 12 years, and Syhlvia Katheiny Torreta.

    Reports are that the pilot was lost, and that someone aboard the plane was sick. They asked for assistance from London’s control tower.

    Locals reported hearing an explosion when the plane impacted the ground.

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    Avoiding Bird Strike Lands Brake Fire


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    Contact photographer Tales De Lass Graciano

    What: Azul Linhas Aereas Avion de Transport Regional ATR-72-100 en route from Sao Jose do Rio Preto to Campinas
    Where: Sao Jose do Rio reto, Brazil
    When: Sep 24th 2011
    Who: 67 aboard
    Why: The pilot was on the runway for takeoff and rejected takeoff due to birds on the runway, which resulted in a brake fire.

    Emergency services put out the fire. Passengers were evacuated, resulting in one injured passenger.

    Passengers were booked on alternative flights.

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    Petrobra Oil Field Chopper Crashes off Coastal Brazil


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    Contact photographer André Martinis

    What: Senior Táxi Aéreo Agusta Westland AW139 from oil platform to Rio de Janeiro
    Where: in the Campos Basin, Rio de Janeiro
    When: August 19, 2011, 17:15
    Who: 4 aboard, 4 fatalities
    Why: On Friday afternoon, the chopper charted to Brazilian oil major Petrobras set out from the PetrobrasP-65 platform en route to Macaé.

    While miles from shore, the crew declared emergency, and went down 100 km off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Contact with the chopper was lost at 17:00 local time.

    A Bandeirante Patrol plane and two search Brazilian military aircraft, the 4th Squadron of the 7th Aviation Group, a H-34 Super Puma helicopter, and the 3rd Squadron of the 8th Aviation Group initiated a search for the downed Senior Táxi helicopter. In all, there were five aircraft, a helicopter and four ships, including a Guajará Navy patrol vessel and a Lynx helicopter on standby in the area.

    After two days of searching in rough seas, three bodies were found on the ocean floor 100 meters down and 62 miles from the coast. One body is still somewhere in the ocean.

    The fatalities are listed as Rommel Oliveira Garcia, pilot, Lauro Pinto Haytzann, co-pilot, both employees of Senior Air Taxis, and passengers Ricardo Leal de Oliveira from the company Engevix, and Joao Carlos Pereira da Silva, the Brasitest inspector.

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    Webjet Engine Trouble over Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    What: Webjet Boeing 737 en route from Belo Horizonte to Sao Paulo
    Where: Belo Horizonte
    When: Aug 10, 2011
    Who: 108 passengers
    Why: After takeoff, the pilots received indications of problems with the right engine.

    Passengers reported hearing noise from the engine, which jarred the plane.

    Pilots shut down the engine and diverted back to Belo Horizonte where they made a safe landing. There is no indication if it was a bird strike or some other type of mechanical problem.

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    Recife-Natal Flight Crashes After Takeoff, 16 lost


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    Contact photographer Gustavo Bolson Maia

    What: NOAR Linhas Aéreas Let L-410UVP-E20 en route from Recife to Natal
    Where: 1.1 miles SSE of Recife-Guararapes International Airport
    When: July 13, 2011
    Who: 2 crew, 14 passengers, 16 aboard
    Why: Shortly after takeoff from Guararapes-Gilberto Freyre International airport in Recife, the Noar LET L410 Turboprop, the pilot declared an emergency. The crew said it would attempt to land at Boa Viagem beach, and made a steep descent.


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    Contact photographer Wagner Damasio – Cavok Brasil Team
    The plane reportedly into a vacant lot sandwiched between the Piedade and Boa Viagem neighborhoods at 0651 local time. The fire burned the plane, leaving a charred shell 300 feet short of where the pilot had intended to land. There was a total loss of life, but the black boxes have been recovered.

    The plane had a recent history of power loss on takeoff.

    The pilot had 15.000 flight hours and 2.000 on type.

    The pilot avoided landing on a densely populated area.

    LET is a Czech-built plane that had been in operation for a year. According to a spokesperson, two LET-410 twin-engine aircraft were purchased new in the Czech Republic. The Noar began its daily operations in the Northeast on June 14, 2010.

    Noar is a small regional airline

    12 second capture of the plane coming down behind a building.

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    Raw video in traffic

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    Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896


    Noar Linhas Aéreas Flight 4896 took off from Boa Viagem, Recife, Brazil, on 13 July 2011, issued a mayday shortly after, and after experiencing trouble with one engine, the Let L-410UVP-E20 crashed 1,300 yds from the end of the runway. Two crew and fourteen passengers were killed on the scene.

    From the final:

    The CVR data indicate a change in the emotional state of the PIC on account of the aircraft adverse condition, to which he had to respond with an operational procedure that was different from the one for a normal flight situation.
    The copilot, in turn, in his communications, gives the impression of being highly tense on account of the emergency situation.
    This became clear with the delay of the copilot in retracting the landing gear, and in the PIC’s initiative to “feather” the propellers that had already been feathered by the copilot, after an order given by the very PIC.
    The evident anxiety identified in the cockpit is reflected in the barriers and filters that influenced the process of communication between the two pilots, sensitively affecting the PIC’s situational awareness.
    Moreover, it is a known fact that non-routine situations can cause a rise in one’s level of anxiety, but such alteration of the emotional state may be intensified when one does not have enough knowledge to manage the circumstance, and this interferes in the analysis of the scenario and adoption of appropriate measures.

    See Final Report (Text Only)

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    ATR Emergency Landing in Sao Paulo


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    Contact photographer Matheus Netto de Lima

    What: Pantanal Linhas Aereas Avion de Transport Regional ATR-42-300 en route from Sao Paulo to Sao Jose de Rio Preto Brazil
    Where: Sao Paulo
    When: Jun 30 2011
    Who: 44 passengers
    Why: After takeoff, the plane’s right engine made an explosive noise and began emitting smoke and sparks, and the propeller stopped.

    The crew shut down that engine and returned to Sao Paulo. The pilot made a safe landing in Sao Paulo. Passengers were rebooked on another flight. Maintenance confirmed a leak in the right hand engine.

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    Friday: Factual Data on Air France 447

    Media excesses, and rumor mongering (my words) have moved the BEA to publish an informational note for the families of the victims, and the general public. The following “chain of events” comes from the initial reading of the Flight Data Analysis of the Cockpit Voice Recorder. There are new facts in the timeline, but the interim report will not be published until the end of July. Interested parties should remain aware that this is not a substitute for later reports. Causes of the accident and safety recommendations will only be revealed and understood after “long and detailed investigative work.”



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    Part Two of the Gol Sentences, in which ATC is Accountable

    We recently mentioned when the pilots of the two US pilots were sentenced to US community service for the 2006 Midair collision between a GOL Boeing and a business jet.

    In addition to the pilots, the Air Traffic Controller Lucivando de Alencar was sentenced. Judge Murilo Mendes revoked Alencar’s license, and sentenced him to three years of community service.

    Flight 1907, en route from Manaus to Rio, disappeared from radar over Mato Grosso when it collided in mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet piloted by the two pilots who were sentenced earlier this week. The Legacy jet landed safely at Cachimbo Airport but 148 passengers and 6 crew members died in the Boeing that crashed into the Amazon.

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    Brazil Piper Crash Kills 4


    Contact photographer Marcelo Faé Ferreira

    What: AEROCLUBE DE PIRACICABA PIPER PA-34-200 Seneca I
    Where: Morro do Cristo village suburb of Sao Paulo, Brazil
    When: May 16, 2010
    Who: 4 fatalities
    Why: The plane, which had six seats, was used to give flying lessons. It was returning from the city of Sao Jose do Rio Preto, when it crashed near a village outside the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, killing its four occupants at 11 pm Monday, just after the pilot lost contact with Pirassununga control tower.

    Searches were performed by a C-105 Amazonas plane, and a Military Police helicopter. The missing plane was found in dense forest between São Pedro and Itaqueri.

    The bodies of Instructor Job de Oliveira, Jean Carlos Capelin (30, of São José do Rio Preto), Rodrigo Matos Gomes (27 of Recife ), and Diego Pereira da Costa (27 of Taguatinga) were identified today, and recovered.