ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 233112
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| Date: | Wednesday 19 February 2020 |
| Time: | 16:20 UTC |
| Type: |  Embraer EMB-201A Ipanema |
| Owner/operator: | Fenner Aviação Agricola Ltda. |
| Registration: | PT-UGA |
| MSN: | 200657 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1990 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Category: | Accident |
| Location: | Patrocínio, Minas Gerais -
 Brazil
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| Phase: | Manoeuvring (airshow, firefighting, ag.ops.) |
| Nature: | Agricultural |
| Departure airport: | Patrocínio, Minas Gerais |
| Patrocínio, Minas Gerais | |
| Investigating agency: | CENIPA |
| Confidence Rating: |  Accident investigation report completed and information captured |
The aircraft took off from a landing area for aero-agricultural use, located on the farm Engenho Velho, in the city of Patrocínio, MG, in order to perform a local dispersion flight of pesticides. After the completion of the planned applications, at 16:15 UTC, the pilot kept the flight at low altitude and collided with a steel anchor cable of the low voltage network near the landing area. Witnesses reported seeing the aircraft in unstable flight after the collision and with objects being dragged in flight until it crashed. The aircraft was destroyed. The pilot died at the scene.
Accident investigation:
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Sources:
https://www.hojeemdia.com.br/horizontes/piloto-morre-em-queda-de-aviao-agricola-em-patrocinio-1.773475
https://www.patoshoje.com.br/noticia/piloto-morre-em-mais-uma-queda-de-aviao-agricola-na-regiao-do-alto-paranaiba-44935.html
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 16 March 2018 | PT-UGA | Avanhandava, SP | |
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| Engine failure | ||||||
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 20-Feb-2020 16:00 | Victor | Added |
| 20-Feb-2020 16:01 | harro | Updated [Other fatalities, Source, Narrative] |
| 20-Feb-2020 16:25 | RobertMB | Updated [Time, Operator, Source] |
| 20-Feb-2020 16:35 | RobertMB | Updated [Operator, Location] |
| 21-Feb-2020 17:05 | cleberjc | Updated [Time, Operator, Location, Departure airport, Destination airport, Damage, Narrative] |
| 27-Feb-2021 18:12 | harro | Updated [Narrative, Category, Accident report] |
| 27-Feb-2021 18:13 | harro | Updated [Accident report] |
| 01-Mar-2021 18:39 | harro | Updated [Cn] |
| 06-May-2021 16:17 | harro | Updated [[Cn]] |
| 06-May-2021 16:17 | harro | Updated [[[Cn]]] |
| 08-May-2021 14:48 | harro | Updated [[[[Cn]]]] |
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