2011 Cessna 208 Caravan PT-OSG accident
Mega Transportes Aéreos Cessna 208 Caravan · Door opening in flight and pilot error
From SJQK - BARRA DO VENTO to Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB)
Event
- NTSB case
- ERA11WA335
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- 0 · 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
- General aviation
- 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 208 Caravan
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- Category
- Airplane · 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
- PT-OSG
- Operator
- Mega Transportes Aéreos
- Onboard fatalities
- 0
- Route
- From SJQK - BARRA DO VENTOTo Atlas Brasil Cantanhede International Airport (BVB)
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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
- Not recorded
- 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 from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The Cessna 208 Caravan PT-OSG accident occurred on 23 May 2011. The aircraft PT-OSG, manufactured in 1992, belonged to Mega Transportes Aéreos, in the Private Air Service registration category.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Cessna 208 Caravan prefixo PT-OSG em 2011” (revision 68410843, 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
NTSB narrative
On May 23, 2011, about 1130 universal coordinated time, a Cessna 208B, Brazilian registration PT-OSG, was substantially damaged from impact and fire following an aborted takeoff. The Brazilian certificated pilot was seriously injured. The flight departed Barra do Vento Airport (SJQK), Boa Vista, Roraima, Brazil, about 1130 UTC.
This accident investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Aeronautical Accident Prevention and Investigation Center (CENIPA) of Brazil. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from:
Aeronautical Accident Prevention and Investigation Center Investigation Division CENIPA SHIS - QI 05-VI Comar Brasilia-DF, Brazil 71.615-600 Telephone: (55-61) 3364-8800 Fax: (55-61) 3365-1004 dipaa.spai@cenipa.aer.mil.br
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
Portuguese Wikipedia article: Acidente do Cessna 208 Caravan prefixo PT-OSG em 2011
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 68410843 · 2024-08-10 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q61001181
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record ERA11WA335
- Event ID
- 20110611X00844
- Case number
- ERA11WA335
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Cessna 208 Caravan prefixo PT-OSG em 2011" (page 5825580, revision 68410843), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case ERA11WA335 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site; country from Wikidata (P17)
- Map position
- Wikipedia: Wikipedia article 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 ERA11WA335
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The aircraft was registered in the private air service category, not for public transport for hire: general aviation. The article: "belonged to Mega Transportes Aéreos, in the Private Air Service registration category"
- 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 "2011 Cessna 208 Caravan PT-OSG accident" and NTSB case ERA11WA335, 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.