Embraer Collision in Brazil Kills 4, Victims Identified

What: Embraer (Neiva) EMB-711C Corisco en route from Aeroporto Campo dos Amarais, Campinas to Condomínio Aeronáutico Fazenda Bonanza, Sorocaba

Embraer (Neiva) EMB-711C Corisco
Where: Santa Bárbara D’Oeste , São Paulo
When: August 18, 2012 9:30 a.m.
Who: 2 aboard 2 fatalities
2 aboard 2 fatalities
Why: On a training flight, two Embraers collided. This plane crashed in a sugar cane field. Four people died in the crash on the edge of the Bandeirantes Highway.

Azul Araken de Oliveira Salamene, pilot Cassiano Ricardo Callegaris, flight dispatcher Voninho Souza Aguiar, and Vandeir Fábio de Lima.

Seripa (Serviços Regionais de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos) is investigating.

A witness, Ricaro Paulo Silveira de Souza, said he saw a wing falling. Another witness, Julio Cesar Prestes, said he saw two planes falling from the sky.

Both planes were taking off from the same airport and going to the same destination but left five minutes apart. On impact, there was an explosion.

Four burned remains were recovered.