A pilot was killed and four passengers survived after a small plane crashed in Brazil on Thursday morning.
Surveillance camera footage showed the Cessna 545 about to land when it suddenly overshot the rainy runway at Ubatuba Airport in Ubatuba, a coastal city in the southeastern state of São Paulo.
The aircraft crashed and exploded before a large part of it came to rest in the ocean on a nearby beach.
Bystanders recorded first responders carrying two children from the waves after they had been pulled from the wreckage.
Mireylle Fries, her husband, Bruno Almeida Souza, and the couple’s young son and daughter, were taken to Santa Casa de Ubatuba Hospital and are in stable condition, Ubatuba Fire Department captain, Karoline Magalhães, told Globo News.
The pilot, Paulo Seghetto, was removed from the doomed plane and went into cardiac arrest before dying at the scene.
The Ubatuba city government and the São Paulo Department of Public Safety said a person who was at the beach was injured.
Rede VOA, the company that manages the airport, said that a woman and her child were hit by the plane and survived.
Smoke and fire filled a beach in Ubatuba, a city in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo, moments after a Cessna with five people on board overshoot the runway at Ubatuba Airport before it crashed and exploded. The pilot was killed and a couple and their two children were rescued and taken to a local medical facility for treatment
A bystander carries a young girl after she was pulled out of the small plane wreckage
The plane departed from Mineiros Municipal Airport in Mineiros, a city in the central state Goiás and encountered poor weather conditions in Ubatuba, including a wet runaway before it slammed through a fence.
The plane was owned by Fries and her family, according to National Civil Aviation Agency records.
It was built in 2008 by Cessna Aircraft. It has a capacity of seven passengers and two pilots.
It requires a 2,588-foot-long runway to land. The landing strip at Ubatuba Airport has a length of 3,083 feet.
Paulo Seghetto went into cardiac arrest and died after he was pulled out for the Cessna
Bruno Souza (left), his wife, Mireylle Fries (right) and their children survived the plane crash
Weberton Moreira told Brazilian news outlet G1 that he was riding his bicycle and ducked when he noticed the a fireball bursting out of the plane.
‘I dropped the bike, saw only the fiery figure and ran away,’ Moreira said.
‘I jumped off the bike. I felt hot steam near me, I lowered my head and ran away.’
Eduardo Gava, a professor, told the outlet that he decided to drive instead of walking due to the rain when he spotted the small plane flying near him.
Rede VOA, the company that administers Ubatuba Airport, said that the Cessna encountered bad weather and a wet runway before it crashed and exploded
Bystanders and first responders helped rescued a couple and their two children from the plane wreckage. The pilot was removed and went into cardiac arrest, but died on the scene
A child is carried after being removed from the doomed Cessna that overshot an airport runway before crashing and exploding Thursday morning in Ubatuba, a coastal city in the southeastern Brazilian state of São Paulo
‘I made a U-turn just after passing in front of the road, because I was going to turn back, when I heard a loud noise from the turbine engine,’ he said.
‘It crossed in front of me. It didn’t drag me for about 50 meters ([64 feet],’ he added.
‘It exploded in front of me. I panicked, parked and I’m still shaking now.’
The Brazilian Air Force said that the Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center has been dispatched to lead the investigation.
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