Atlas Taxi Aereo Sikorsky S76 A accident
Sikorsky S76 A · Accident: loss of engine power (total) en route
From Macaé Benedito Lacerda Airport (SBME) to Campos dos Goytacazes
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA16WA196
- 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
- 0 · 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
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Sikorsky S76 A
- Aircraft type
- Sikorsky S76
- Category
- Helicopter
- 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-EMR
- Operator
- Atlas Taxi Aereo
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Macaé Benedito Lacerda Airport (SBME), Macae, RjTo Campos dos Goytacazes
- 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., 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
- En route · descent
- 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 engine power (total)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Substantial
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 April 28, 2016, about 1330 coordinated universal time, a Sikorsky S76A, Brazilian registration PR-EMR, was substantially damaged during an emergency landing after a fire indication and precautionary engine shutdown on the right engine followed shortly by a loss of engine power in the left engine, near Campos dos Goytacazes Municipality, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The pilot, copilot, and nine passengers were not injured. The flight departed from Benedito Lacerda Airport (SBME), Macae, Brazil and was enroute to an off-shore oil platform.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Brazil. Further information can be obtained from:
Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center Phones: +55 (21) 3368-3617 email: investiga@seripa3.aer.mil Terceiro Serviço Regional de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos Endereço Praia do Galeão, 30 Ilha do Governador - Rio de Janeiro CEP: 21941-510
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 ERA16WA196
- Event ID
- 20160531X05632
- Case number
- ERA16WA196
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- 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: dff910d62becfc8f0d73ebf9e51cdeecb037dd5ff32d372d96ce0615368d1bf9; retrieved 2026-09-16T03:26:28.546Z.
- Corrected after a review of the NTSB narrative, which states these values explicitly: departure. Narrative says the flight departed Benedito Lacerda Airport (SBME), Macae; the recorded code SMBE is a transposition.