What the records say
- When
- 5 Nov 2021
- Kind
- Air disaster
- Coordinates
- 19.77° S, 42.11° W
- Description
- 2021 aviation incident
- Deaths
- 5
- Injured
- 0
- Cause
- controlled flight into terrain
2021 Piedade de Caratinga Beechcraft King Air crash
Plane crash
On 5 November 2021, a Beechcraft C90A King Air, registered as PT-ONJ and serving as a air taxi, crashed in the Brazilian municipality of Piedade de Caratinga, Minas Gerais state, killing all five occupants, including singer Marília Mendonça. The plane was flying with three passengers and two crew members to neighboring municipality Caratinga, where Mendonça was scheduled to perform.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “A small plane crashes near a waterfall in Piedade de Caratinga, located in the interior of Minas Gerais; kills five people, including singer Marília Mendonça”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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