Brazil Police Plane Crash Kills 3 Officers in Minas
Three Minas Gerais police officers died when their US-designed King Air crashed on a training flight on Friday, the state's second fatal air crash that day. The post Brazil Police Plane Crash Kills 3 Officers in Minas appeared first on The Rio Times .
Three Brazilian Military Police officers died on Friday, 9 October, when their twin-engine King Air 300 plane crashed during a mandatory training flight near Ipatinga's regional airport in Minas Gerais state. The aircraft, manufactured in 1986 by Beechcraft (Textron Aviation), was on its way to Ipatinga at 4 p.m. from Pampulha Airport in Belo Horizonte.
All three officers - Lieutenant Colonel Luiz Fernando Silvestre, 49, Lieutenant Gabriela Emília Soares Lacerda Resende, 35, and Lieutenant Alice dos Santos Oliveira Almeida, 34 - perished at the crash site. The state declared three days of official mourning.
Earlier that day, a small private plane crashed into the Belo Horizonte metro's maintenance yard, killing its pilot, Daniel Salomão, 31. Both crashes were investigated by the Brazilian Air Force's Cenipa agency. The King Air line, sold by Textron Aviation, now belongs to Textron Inc. (NYSE: TRNX). The cause of both accidents remains unknown, and investigators have not ruled out any potential factors.
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