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ERA15WA236 · Beech C90 - GTI

7 Jun 2015 · Belo Horizonte City, Brazil

Atlantica Exportacao e Importacao Beech C90 - GTI · Accident: loss of control in flight during initial climb

From Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (SBBH) to Fazenda Barranco Alto Airport (SSOQ)

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Event

NTSB case
ERA15WA236
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
3 · 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
Visual Meteorological Cond

Beech C90 - GTI

Aircraft type
Beechcraft 90
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
PR-AVG
Onboard fatalities
Unknown
Route
From Pampulha - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Airport (SBBH), Belo Horizonte CityTo Fazenda Barranco Alto Airport (SSOQ), Aquidauana
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
Initial climb
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
Loss of control in flight
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 June 7, 2015, about 1823 UTC, a Textron Aviation C90GTi, Brazil registration PR-AVG, experienced a loss of control shortly after takeoff and crashed into a house near Belo Horizonte-Pampulha Airport (SBBH), Belo Horizonte City, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The flightrew and 1 additional cabin crew member were fatally injured, and one person on the ground sustained minor injuries. The airplane was destroyed by impact and a postcrash fire. The airplane was operated by Atlantica Exportacao e Importacao Ltda, under the provisions of a foreign private, non-scheduled domestic flight. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and flight plan information is unknown. The flight originated about 1 minute earlier from SBBH, and was destined for Faz Barranco Alto Airport (SSOQ), Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.

According to preliminary information, after takeoff a loss of control occurred and the airplane descended into a building and was destroyed by a postcrash fire.

The 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 (CENIPA) Information Technology Division SHIS-QI 05-VI Comar Brasilia-DF, Brazil, 71.615.600 Phone: 55 61 3364 8819 Facsimile: 55 61 3365 1004 E-mail: dti@cenipa.aer.mil.br

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

Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset

Sources

NTSB record ERA15WA236
Event ID
20150610X32226
Case number
ERA15WA236
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: 15115cb5f7005b42637dc0b06ad3e945f3d770f2cd330ea1bfeb73564556eabb; retrieved 2026-09-14T19:29:58.982Z.