2021 Beechcraft King Air PS-CSM accident
CSM Agropecuária Beechcraft Super King Air · Stall caused by human error
From Pedro Morganti Airport, Piracicaba, São Paulo to Redenção Airport (RDC)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA21WA229
- 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
- 7 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- 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
Beechcraft Super King Air
- Aircraft type
- Beechcraft SUPER KING AIR
- 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
- PS-CSM
- Operator
- CSM Agropecuária
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Pedro Morganti Airport, Piracicaba, São PauloTo Redenção Airport (RDC)
- Aircraft age
- About 2 years (built 2019)
- 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
- Initial climb
- 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
- Destroyed
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft oper/perf/capability
- Personnel issues › Task performance
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
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 2021 Beechcraft King Air PS-CSM accident was an air accident that occurred on 14 September 2021 in the city of Piracicaba, in the state of São Paulo. The airplane, owned by CSM Agropecuária, was carrying seven people, two crew members and five passengers, all killed at the moment of the accident.
The causes of the accident were determined by CENIPA with the aid of the recovery of the black box carried out by the civil police of the state of São Paulo.
Investigation and cause
Causes
The Final Report of the investigation by the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA), with the assistance of the United States National Transportation Safety Board and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, concluded that the aircraft was operating above the Maximum Takeoff Weight; the investigation also concluded that the speeds and parameters of a typical takeoff were used, with power being reduced shortly after gear retraction; however, there was no adequate assessment of the flight parameters by the crew, culminating in the aircraft's stall condition shortly after takeoff.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Beechcraft King Air prefixo PS-CSM em 2021” (revision 69601853, 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 Beechcraft King Air prefixo PS-CSM em 2021
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 69601853 · 2025-02-20 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q108750425
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA21WA229
- Event ID
- 20210916103891
- Case number
- GAA21WA229
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Beechcraft King Air prefixo PS-CSM em 2021" (page 6683528, revision 69601853), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA21WA229 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA21WA229: 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 GAA21WA229
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A King Air owned and operated by an agribusiness company carrying passengers: a corporate aircraft flown for its owner. The article: "The airplane, owned by CSM Agropecuária, was carrying seven people, two crew members and five passengers"
- 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 "2021 Beechcraft King Air PS-CSM accident" and NTSB case GAA21WA229, 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.