ENG17RA040 · ATR ATR72 212A
Passaredo Transportes Aereos ATR ATR72 212A · Incident: flight control system malfunction/failure on approach
From Leite Lopes Airport (SBRP) to São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (SBGR)
Event
- NTSB case
- ENG17RA040
- 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
- Incident
- 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
- Event fatalities
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
ATR ATR72 212A
- Aircraft type
- ATR ATR72
- 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
- PP-PTQ
- Operator
- Passaredo Transportes Aereos
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Leite Lopes Airport (SBRP), Ribeirão PretoTo São Paulo/Guarulhos–Governor André Franco Montoro International Airport (SBGR), Guarulhos
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Approach
- 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
- Flight control system malfunction/failure
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
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
The Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos (CENIPA) of Brazil has notified the NTSB of an incident involving an Aerospatiale and Alenia ATR-72-212A, which occurred on March 21, 2017. The NTSB has appointed a U.S. Accredited Representative to assist the CENIPA investigation under the provisions of ICAO Annex 13 as the State of Manufacture of a component of the airplane.
All investigative information will be released by the CENIPA.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG17RA040
- Event ID
- 20171024X25956
- Case number
- ENG17RA040
- 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 UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 0334cd7b240ccfe18171c8072b64511b5975c60b6d49b7b23dee53bb1677ac30; retrieved 2026-09-16T05:57:45.471Z.