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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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