# NTSB GAA25WA133: Piper PA32, Rondonopolis, Brazil, April 2, 2025

- Type: NTSB accident investigation
- Classification: Accident · Fatal · Class 4 · Foreign
- Date: April 2, 2025, 07:30 local (11:30 UTC)
- Place: Rondonopolis, Brazil
- Coordinates: -16.483889, -54.770278
- Nearby events: https://openairdocs.org/map.md?lat=-16.4839&lon=-54.7703&mi=10
- Phase of flight: [Approach](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-phases/500) (OpenAirDocs' grouping)
- Defining event: [Approach: Loss of control in flight](https://openairdocs.org/ntsb-events/240)
- Highest injury: Fatal
- Injuries: 1 fatal
- Status: Led by another country's authority
- Investigation class: Class 4 - Basic report with no Prelim publish
- NTSB office: General Aviation Accidents
- Lead agency: Other
- NTSB case key (mKey): 199976
- NTSB case page: https://web.ntsb.gov/investigations/?ntsbnumber=GAA25WA133
- NTSB report (PDF, downloads): https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-repgen/api/Aviation/ReportMain/GenerateNewestReport/199976/pdf
- Page: https://openairdocs.org/ntsb/GAA25WA133

## Sequence of events

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

- [Approach: 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: PP-PSO (not matched to a registry record)
- Reported make and model: PIPER PA32 (301FT)
- Category: Airplane
- Serial number: 3232037
- Year built: 2005
- Engines: Lycoming IO-540-K1G5 reciprocating
- Damage: Destroyed
- Fire: Unknown
- Flight: Non-U.S., non-commercial
- Airworthiness certificate: Standard, Normal
- Departed: SWPY
- Destination: Same as departure
- Airport: SDWC, Agropastori Bom Pastor Aerodrome
- Equipment: Unknown

## Weather

- Conditions: Day
- Wind: 160° at 5 knots
- Visibility: 6 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling: 700 ft broken
- Temperature: 77 °F, dew point 75 °F
- Observed at: SBCY, 92 nm away
- METAR: SBCY 021200Z 16005KT 9999 BKN007 OVC020 25/24 Q1014

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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