2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash
Cessna 175 Skylark · Possible unsuccessful landing attempt after a go-around at a non-permitted time during a visual flight
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA25WA270
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 4 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 4
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
Cessna 175 Skylark
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 175
- 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-BAN
- Operator
- Unknown
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Unknown
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: Aquidauana, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 23 September 2025, a small plane crashed in the rural area of the Brazilian Pantanal-located municipality of Aquidauana, Mato Grosso do Sul. All four occupants, including Chinese landscape architect and urban planner Kongjian Yu, were killed.
Background
The plane's passengers were in the region to film a documentary about a project that would address issues surrounding climate changes based on the idea of "sponge city", an urban planning model in China that emphasizes the use of infrastructures capable of absorbing rainwater in order to mitigate flood risks and improve the urban climate. The concept was developed by Kongjian Yu, a Chinese architect among the people on board. Yu founded the College of Architecture and Landscape at Peking University. He was in the country also for the 14th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, in the same month.
Two people from the team were going to board the flight, but they were unable to do so due to the plane's maximum capacity of four people.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
According to preliminary information, the plane made three flights on the day of the crash, and tried to land after the permitted time for the runway, which operated only visually. On the second landing attempt, after a go-around, the aircraft lost altitude and crashed, causing an explosion. A witness said he heard the explosion at exactly 6 p.m. local time and then saw the smoke.
Despite the initial allegations, the police ruled out the possibility of white-lipped peccaries (pig-like ungulates found in Central and South America) on the runway.
Text from the Wikipedia article “2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash” (revision 1359381360, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
Sources
Wikipedia article: 2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash
- Revision
- 1359381360 · 2026-06-14 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q136391140
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA25WA270
- Event ID
- 20250929201739
- Case number
- GAA25WA270
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash" (page 81200101, revision 1359381360); merged with NTSB case GAA25WA270 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA25WA270
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- Wikipedia: not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (2)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "2025 Aquidauana Cessna 175 crash" and NTSB case GAA25WA270, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.