The plane that carried two filmmakers, a pilot and Chinese architect Kongjian Yu hit a tree and caught fire while trying to land in a place with low visibility. The conditions that caused the accident were explained by delegate Ana Cláudia Medina, director of Dracco-MS and responsible for investigating the case.
At 6:03 pm, the pilot tried to land for the first time, but – misaligned on the track for lack of visibility – he bought. The aircraft made the outline and tried to land again, but 300 meters from the track crashed with a tree of about 20 meters high.
The aircraft, which was supplied at the time of the collision, explained the delegate in an interview with Fantástico.
It was a week since this day, Tuesday (23), the rider took the team to meet three farms of the Pantanal. In the late afternoon, the pilot returned to leave the three men where they were staying.
According to Medina, the Cessna 175 model plane, manufactured in 1958, had already been seized in an operation in 2019 due to a series of irregularities. By 2022, the aircraft was allowed to operate again, but was not allowed to provide air taxi service or to perform night flights.
The delegate explains that the pilot the track could only operate until 5:39 pm.
Djalma Silveira, lawyer and friend of the pilot said that Marcelo loved aviation, nature and friends, and that.
The Cenipa (Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center) continues to investigate the case.
