# NTSB GAA24WA271: Beech C90, Apiacas, Brazil, August 15, 2024

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 5 · Foreign
- Date: August 15, 2024, 07:00 local (11:00 UTC)
- Place: Apiacas, Brazil
- Coordinates: -9.1375, -57.094444
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-9.1375&lon=-57.0944&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Enroute](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/400) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 5 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 5 - No publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 195006
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA24WA271
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/195006/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA24WA271

## Sequence of events

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

- [Enroute-cruise: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240) (defining event); cases with it: [All aircraft, 5,002 cases](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240/sequence.md)

## Aircraft

- Registration: PS-AAS (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: BEECH C90
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: LJ-1987
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Departed: SWSI
- Destination: SWPG

## Weather

- Wind: 80° at 2 knots
- Visibility: 3.11 statute miles
- Temperature: 81 °F, dew point 68 °F
- Observed at: SBAT, 73 nm away
- METAR: SBAT 151200Z 08002KT 5000 FU NSC 27/20 Q1017

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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