2020 EMB-810 PT-RMN accident
Top Line Táxi Aéreo EMB 810 Seneca
From Sobral, Ceará, to Teresina, Piauí,
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
- 4 · 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
- 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
- Charter & commuter
EMB 810 Seneca
- Aircraft type
- Emb 810
- 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-RMN
- Operator
- Top Line Táxi Aéreo
- Onboard fatalities
- 4
- Route
- From Sobral, Ceará,To Teresina, Piauí,
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2020 EMB-810 PT-RMN accident was an accident that occurred on 15 May of that year, when the aircraft, an Embraer EMB-810 Seneca airplane, crashed in a rural area in the municipality of São Benedito, in Ceará. Four people died, three doctors and the pilot.
The accident
The aircraft took off from Sobral at around 18:15 on Friday 15 May 2020, bound for the capital of Piauí, Teresina. The chartered flight, piloted by Paulo César Magalhães Costa, was intended to take the doctor Pedro José Ferreira de Meneses, a COVID-19 victim, from Sobral, where he was hospitalized, to be treated in Teresina. The patient was accompanied by another doctor, Carlos Victor Sousa Rodrigues, and the nurse Samara Félix.
At around 19h the airplane crashed in a rural area of the municipality of São Benedito, in the Serra da Ibiapaba region. Residents near the crash site reported having heard the noise of the aircraft flying over at low altitude and then a loud explosion noise. Preliminary investigations reported that there was fog in the region at the time of the accident.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do EMB-810 prefixo PT-RMN em 2020” (revision 72377096, 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 EMB-810 prefixo PT-RMN em 2020
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 72377096 · 2026-06-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q97303326
- 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 EMB-810 prefixo PT-RMN em 2020" (page 6272938, revision 72377096), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- 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)
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A chartered patient-transfer flight by the air taxi company Top Line Táxi Aéreo: an air taxi and air ambulance flight. The article: "The chartered flight, piloted by Paulo César Magalhães Costa, was intended to take the doctor Pedro José Ferreira de Meneses, a COVID-19 victim, from Sobral"
- 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.