# NTSB ERA13WA178: Embraer EMB-820C, Almeirim Municipality, Brazil, March 12, 2013

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Foreign investigation
- Date: March 12, 2013, 23:30 local (23:30 UTC)
- Place: Almeirim Municipality, Brazil
- Coordinates: -0.866944, -52.643611 (estimated)
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-0.8669&lon=-52.6436&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Unknown](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/990) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 10 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- NTSB office: Eastern Region Aviation
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 86483
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=ERA13WA178
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/86483/pdf
- NTSB docket: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=86483
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/ERA13WA178

## Sequence of events

The events NTSB coded, in order, by phase of flight. The defining event best describes what happened.

- [Unknown: Unknown or undetermined](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 1,703 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/000/sequence.md)

## Factual narrative

On March 12, 2013, about 2330 UTC, an Embraer Aircraft EMB-820C, PT-VAQ, operated by Fretax Taxi Aereo Ltda, crashed during approach to Monte Dourado Airport (SBMD), Almeirim, Brazil. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed at the time and flight plan information is unknown for the foreign non-scheduled revenue passenger flight from Val de Cans International Airport (SBBE), Belem, Brazil, to SBMD. The airplane was destroyed by impact and a postcrash fire and the pilot and nine passengers were fatally injured. The time of departure from SBBE was not determined. According to preliminary information, the airplane was on approach to SBMD, and was lost from radar at 2026 UTC. The following day, the wreckage was spotted in a eucalyptus plantation, 300 meters to the north of a nearby railway. The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the Government of Brazil. Any further information pertaining to this accident may be obtained from: Aeronautical Accident Prevention And Investigation Center (CENIPA) Information Technology Division SHIS-QI 05-VI Comar Brasilia-DF, Brazil, 71.615.600 Phone: 55 61 3364 8819 Facsimile: 55 61 3365 1004 E-mail: dti@cenipa.aer.mil.br This report is for informational purposes only, and contains information released by or obtained for the Government of Brazil.

## Aircraft

- Registration: PT-VAQ (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: Embraer Aircraft EMB-820C
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 820140
- Engines: Pratt & Whitney PT6A-27 550 horsepower turbo prop
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: On-Ground
- Flight: Non-U.S., commercial
- Operator: Fretax Taxi Aereo Ltda.
- Registered owner: Unknown
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: SBBE, Belem
- Destination: SBMD, Almeirim
- Flight plan: Unknown

## Flight crew

As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.

- Pilot; injuries: fatal; seat: left

## Weather

- Conditions: Visual (VMC), Not reported
- Wind: 90° at 2 knots
- Visibility: 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: none
- Temperature: 79 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Altimeter: 29.79 inHg
- Observed at: SBMD

## Docket (1 files)

The files NTSB released with the investigation on April 9, 2013, on NTSB's docket system: https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket?ProjectID=86483. 14 KB in all.

- Foreign Accident Statement (item 1, .PDF, 14 KB): https://data.ntsb.gov/Docket/Document/docBLOB?ID=40390286&FileExtension=.PDF&FileName=Foreign%20Accident%20Statement-Master.PDF

From the NTSB's public API. Aircraft are matched to registry aircraft by N-number and event date, checked against the reported serial number, make and model; the registry's history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.

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