2022 Cessna 208 PT-OQR accident
Skydive4Fun Serviço Aéreo Especializado Cessna 208 Caravan · Under investigation Witness reports suggest an electrical failure
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA22WA183
- 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
- 2 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 14
- 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
- 12
- 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
- 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-OQR
- Onboard fatalities
- 2
- Route
- From not recordedTo not recorded
- 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., 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 · climb to cruise
- 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 engine power (partial)
- 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 NTSB case API, which marks them as estimated or does not say; no uncertainty radius is established.
From the Wikipedia article
The 2022 Cessna 208 PT-OQR accident was an air accident that occurred on 11 May 2022 in the municipality of Boituva, in São Paulo.
There were 15 people on the aircraft who were skydiving in the city. The aircraft in question was a Cessna Caravan 208 with registration PT-OQR belonging to the company Skydive4Fun, and it had a valid Certificate of Airworthiness, which was later suspended because of the accident. 2 deaths and 12 injured were reported.
The causes of the incident are being investigated, and witness reports suggest that the accident occurred after the airplane struck the power grid and then an embankment, after attempting an emergency landing because of an alleged electrical failure.
Accident
The airplane with 15 passengers and a pilot left the Boituva Skydiving Center in the early afternoon, where the conditions for practising the sport were favourable. Soon afterwards, the pilot allegedly noticed an electrical failure on the aircraft and attempted to make an emergency landing back at the Skydiving Center. After allegedly striking electricity towers, the airplane ended up falling down an embankment and overturning, leaving 2 dead and 12 injured.
The rescue was carried out by teams of the São Paulo State Military Police, with the aid of their Águia helicopters; by the São Paulo State Military Fire Brigade, by the Mobile Emergency Care Service (SAMU) and by the Metropolitan Civil Guards (GCM). Even though there was no fire, the accident site was cordoned off to control a fuel leak and to preserve the site for future investigations.
The causes of the accident are yet to be determined by the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA).
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Cessna 208 prefixo PT-OQR em 2022” (revision 70769577, 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 Cessna 208 prefixo PT-OQR em 2022
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 70769577 · 2025-08-30 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q112132604
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA22WA183
- Event ID
- 20220519105100
- Case number
- GAA22WA183
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Cessna 208 prefixo PT-OQR em 2022" (page 6873203, revision 70769577), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA22WA183 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA22WA183: 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 GAA22WA183
- Operation
- Reviewed correction (2026-09-26): A Skydive4Fun Caravan carrying skydivers from a skydiving centre: a parachute-jump flight, general aviation. The article: "There were 15 people on the aircraft who were skydiving in the city."
- 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 "2022 Cessna 208 PT-OQR accident" and NTSB case GAA22WA183, 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.