2019 Piper PA-28 PT-KLO accident
Aeroclube de Alagoas Piper PA-28 · *altitude adverse weather conditions flight indiscipline piloting judgement flight planning decision-making process
From Salvador, Bahia, Brazil to Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA19WA308
- 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
- 3 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
Piper PA-28
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-28
- 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-KLO
- Operator
- Aeroclube de Alagoas
- Onboard fatalities
- 3
- Route
- From Salvador, Bahia, BrazilTo Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil
- Aircraft age
- About 45 years (built 1974)
- 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
- En route
- 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 control in flight
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Coordinates from the NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2019 Piper PA-28 PT-KLO aircraft accident occurred on 27 May 2019 when, at around 12:40, the aircraft crashed into a mangrove swamp in the village of Porto do Mato, in Estância, Sergipe. The accident killed three people: the singer Gabriel Diniz and the pilots Abraão Farias and Linaldo Xavier Rodrigues. The aircraft was owned by the Aeroclube de Alagoas.
Accident
At around 12:30 the Recife Tactical Air Group, after the aircraft disappeared from radar, asked the Sergipe Tactical Air Group to carry out searches to find the aircraft. The Integrated Public Security Operations Centre (Ciosp) of Sergipe was alerted at around 12:32 and sent teams from the Military Police, the Military Fire Brigade and Civil Defence to the site, which they reached using a fire brigade boat because it was a hard-to-reach spot in a mangrove swamp in Porto do Mato, a village in the municipality of Estância.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
According to an official statement from Anac (National Civil Aviation Agency), the aircraft had a certificate of airworthiness valid until February 2023 and its annual maintenance inspection valid until March 2020, but it could not operate as an air taxi. CENIPA (Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Centre) assigned a team of investigators from the Second Regional Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Service (SERIPA II) to conduct the investigation.
The Federal Police is also part of the accident investigation team, and Seripa said there was no deadline for the conclusion of the investigations. As part of the investigative actions, ANAC grounded the nine aircraft belonging to the Aeroclube de Alagoas and suspended its operations as a precaution. According to the Aeroclube's press office, the pilots were giving the singer a lift. This information was denied by Gabriel's father, Francisco Diniz, who stated that the flight was paid for, and also by the father of Abraão Farias, who stated that the aeroclub knew the flight was chartered. According to Ronaldo Luiz Oliveira Santo, the pilot of the motorboat that helped in the initial rescue, the aircraft was missing one of its wings before it crashed; this information, however, is being examined as part of the accident investigation.
The wreckage of the aircraft was sold to a scrapyard in Aracaju, after being returned to the Alagoas aeroclub.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Piper PA-28 prefixo PT-KLO em 2019” (revision 72350275, 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 Piper PA-28 prefixo PT-KLO em 2019
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72350275 · 2026-05-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q65164248
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA19WA308
- Event ID
- 20190604X02927
- Case number
- GAA19WA308
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Piper PA-28 prefixo PT-KLO em 2019" (page 6007769, revision 72350275), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA19WA308 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA19WA308: NTSB API eventLatitude/eventLongitude
- 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 GAA19WA308
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): The aircraft belonged to an aero club, which places the flight in general aviation; no hire or airline is mentioned. The article: "The aircraft was owned by the Aeroclube de Alagoas."
- 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 "2019 Piper PA-28 PT-KLO accident" and NTSB case GAA19WA308, 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.
- Filled from the NTSB case API where the bulk record had no value: coordinates. Values present in the bulk record are kept.