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Firefighters Crash in Rio Street


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What: Corpo de Bombeiros do Rio de Janeiro/Fire Department Air Tractor AT-802 en route to (and from) Resende Airport
Where: Rio de Janeiro
When: Apr 27, 2010
Who: Two firemen, Major Jasper Sanderson and 27 year old trainee Luís Guilherme Neto
Why: Two minutes after taking off from the airport on a training flight on the new plane, the pilot lost control of the plane and it crashed on to a city street, leaving no survivors. Sixty families had to be evacuated from the neighborhood because of the danger of explosion. The plane had the capacity to carry 3100 liters of water.

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