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ERA11WA089 · Beech 95-B55 B

9 Dec 2010 · Bom Jesus do Galho City, Brazil

Agropecuaria Gegamo Aircraft Beech 95-B55 B · Accident

From Eurico de Aguiar Salles International Airport (SBVT) to Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport (SBBR)

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Event

NTSB case
ERA11WA089
Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
Accident
InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
API-reported fatalities
4 · all aircraft and ground
Ground fatalities
Unknown
OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
General aviation
WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
Not recorded

Beech 95-B55 B

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 55
Category
Airplane
RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
PT-LEU
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Eurico de Aguiar Salles International Airport (SBVT), VitoriaTo Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek International Airport (SBBR), Brasilia-DF
Aircraft age
Not recorded
Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
Non-U.S., Non-Commercial
Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
Not recorded
Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
Not recorded
DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
Destroyed

Cause areas

No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.

Approximate · Coordinates as recorded by the NTSB; no uncertainty radius is established.

NTSB narrative

On December 9, 2010, about 2135 universal coordinated time, a Hawker Beech Aircraft 95-B55, Brazilian registration PT-LEU, experienced an engine failure, impacted the terrain, and was destroyed by a post crash fire in Bom Jesus do Galho City, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The pilot and three passengers were fatally injured, one passenger received serious injuries. The airplane departed Goiabeiras Airport (SBVT), Vitória, Espírito Santo, Brazil and was enroute to Brasilia International Airport – President Juseclino Kubitschek (SBBR), Brasília-DF, Brazil.

This investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Brazil. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:

Aeronautical Accident Prevention and Investigation Center Investigative Division SHIS-QI 05-VI COMAR Brasilia-DF, Brazil 71.615-600

This report is for informational purposes and contains only information released by the Government of Brazil.

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record ERA11WA089
Event ID
20101214X45509
Case number
ERA11WA089
Dataset
full-current
Source SHA-256
5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
  • Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
  • No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
  • The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
  • API snapshot SHA-256: 04169b1517bfe9a7b78f2e16f9b15b2f8911ddf0ed21bed579be50f2b4dc97ac; retrieved 2026-09-13T21:11:00.734Z.