2015 Eurocopter EC155 PP-LLS accident
Seripatri Eurocopter EC155 · Main rotor blade came loose during flight
From Helipark, Carapicuiba to an unrecorded destination
Event
- 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
- Event fatalities
- 5 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 1
- 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
- 1
- 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
Eurocopter EC155
- Aircraft type
- Eurocopter EC155
- Category
- Helicopter · from aircraft type
- 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-LLS
- Operator
- Seripatri
- Onboard fatalities
- 5
- Route
- From Helipark, CarapicuibaTo not recorded
Approximate · Estimated position: Carapicuíba, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
An air accident occurred on 2 April 2015 in the Brazilian city of Carapicuiba. The event involved a helicopter, which fell on a house, killing the four passengers and the pilot. Among the occupants of the helicopter was Thomaz Alckmin, son of the governor of São Paulo, Geraldo Alckmin.
The fatal victims of the accident were Thomaz Alckmin, aged 31, the pilot Carlos Haroldo Isquerdo Gonçalves, aged 53, and the mechanics Paulo Henrique Moraes, aged 42, Erick Martinho, aged 36, and Leandro Souza, aged 34.
On 31 March 2023, the expert of the Institute of Criminalistics (IC), Hélio Rodrigues Ramaciotti, was sentenced to 3 years in prison by the São Paulo courts for false expert testimony and other irregularities in the work of preparing the report on the helicopter crash.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Eurocopter EC155 prefixo PP-LLS em 2015” (revision 72350085, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Acidente do Eurocopter EC155 prefixo PP-LLS em 2015
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72350085 · 2026-05-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q20052516
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Eurocopter EC155 prefixo PP-LLS em 2015" (page 4712123, revision 72350085), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- 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)
- Operation
- not stated in the Wikipedia article's infobox or opening paragraph
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Portuguese Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.