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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