2025 Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 PR-GFS air accident
Private Cessna Citation CJ2 · Under investigation
From Mineiros Airport (SWME) to Ubatuba Gastão Madeira State Airport (UBT)
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
- 1 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- Survivors
- 4
- 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
- General aviation
Cessna Citation CJ2
- Aircraft type
- Cessna Citation CJ2
- 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
- PR-GFS
- Operator
- Private
- Onboard fatalities
- 1
- Route
- From Mineiros Airport (SWME)To Ubatuba Gastão Madeira State Airport (UBT)
Approximate · Estimated position: Ubatuba, the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
On 9 January 2025, a serious air accident occurred in Ubatuba, on the northern coast of São Paulo, involving a Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 aircraft, registration PR-GFS. The business jet, manufactured in 2008 by the American company Cessna, took off from Mineiros Airport, in Goiás, with five people on board: the pilot Paulo Seghetto, who died, and the businesspeople Mireylle Fries and Bruno Almeida Souza and their two children, who survived.
Accident
During the landing attempt at Gastão Madeira State Airport, in Ubatuba, under adverse weather conditions, including rain and a wet runway, the aircraft overran runway 09, went through the perimeter fence and hit Cruzeiro beach, exploding afterwards. The pilot did not survive his injuries and died at the scene. The four passengers survived and were taken to the Santa Casa de Ubatuba; Mireylle Fries underwent emergency surgery.
In addition to the occupants of the aircraft, a woman and a child who were on the street were struck and rescued alive. Witnesses reported that the airplane left no braking marks on the runway, suggesting that it did not touch the ground before overrunning the airport boundaries.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The competent authorities, including the Regional Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Service (SERIPA), were called in and are conducting investigations to determine the causes of the accident. Factors such as the adverse weather conditions and the length of the Ubatuba airport runway, which is 940 metres long, are being considered in the initial analyses.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the Portuguese Wikipedia article “Acidente aéreo do Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 prefixo PR-GFS em 2025” (revision 69979412, 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 aéreo do Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 prefixo PR-GFS em 2025
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 69979412 · 2025-04-21 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q132360488
- 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 aéreo do Cessna Citation 525 CJ1 prefixo PR-GFS em 2025" (page 7537254, revision 69979412), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- operator given as a private owner in the infobox
- 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.