2024 Piper PA-46 PS-MTG accident
Private Piper PA-46 · Under investigation
From Amarais Airport, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil to Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA24WA087
- 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
- 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-46
- Aircraft type
- Piper PA-46
- 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-MTG
- Operator
- Private
- Onboard fatalities
- 7
- Route
- From Amarais Airport, Campinas, São Paulo, BrazilTo Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Aircraft age
- About 28 years (built 1996)
- 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 2024 Piper PA-46 PS-MTG accident occurred on 28 January 2024, when an airplane, a Piper PA-46 model, crashed in the rural area of Itapeva, in the southern region of Minas Gerais. The aircraft took off from Campinas, bound for Belo Horizonte, with the crash occurring at 10:36. All people on board died, totalling seven deaths. According to residents' accounts, the airplane broke apart while flying over the region and its parts gradually fell to the ground. The victims were two businessmen from Minas Gerais and their family members, as well as the pilot and co-pilot.
Accident
The aircraft took off from Amarais Airport, in Campinas, at 10:09, with the accident occurring at 10:36, in the town of Itapeva, in the south of Minas Gerais. According to the first information from local authorities, the aircraft disintegrated shortly before it crashed. The wreckage was found over an area of 1 km, according to information from the local firefighters.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
According to a note from the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA), teams from the Third Regional Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Service (SERIPA III) were dispatched from Rio de Janeiro to begin the investigations.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente do Piper PA-46 prefixo PS-MTG em 2024” (revision 69291758, 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-46 prefixo PS-MTG em 2024
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 69291758 · 2025-01-04 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q124507552
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA24WA087
- Event ID
- 20240207193759
- Case number
- GAA24WA087
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- pt Wikipedia article "Acidente do Piper PA-46 prefixo PS-MTG em 2024" (page 7290216, revision 69291758), translated into English with AI assistance; merged with NTSB case GAA24WA087 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- NTSB record GAA24WA087: 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 GAA24WA087
- Operation
- operator given as a private owner in the infobox
- 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 "2024 Piper PA-46 PS-MTG accident" and NTSB case GAA24WA087, 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.