{"id":420580,"date":"2023-09-17T09:23:52","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T06:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=420580"},"modified":"2023-09-17T09:23:52","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T06:23:52","slug":"fourteen-dead-in-plane-crash-in-brazils-amazonas-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/fourteen-dead-in-plane-crash-in-brazils-amazonas-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourteen dead in plane crash in Brazil&#8217;s Amazonas state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-0\">SAO PAULO, (SONNA) &#8211; Fourteen people on a small jet died when the plane crashed in Brazil&#8217;s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state&#8217;s governor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-1\">The accident took place in the Barcelos province, some 400 km (248 miles) from the state capital, Manaus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-2\">&#8220;I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two crew members who were victims of the plane crash in Barcelos on Saturday,&#8221; said Wilson Lima, Governor of Amazonas state on X, formerly known as Twitter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-3\">&#8220;Our teams have been working from the outset to provide the necessary support. My sympathy and prayers go out to their families and friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-4\">The Manaus Aerotaxi airline issued a statement confirming that there had been an accident and that it was investigating but offering no details about deaths or injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-5\">&#8220;We count on respect for the privacy of those involved at this difficult time and will be available to provide all necessary information and updates as the investigation progresses,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-6\">The Brazilian Air Force (FAB) said in a statement that investigators from the Accident Investigation and Prevention Center (CENIPA) had been called in to begin an investigation into the reasons for the crash of the small aircraft, an Embraer Bandeirante with the registration PT-SOG.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-7\">In an interview with O Globo newspaper, Governor Lima said that the bodies had already been removed from the aircraft and that the victims were Brazilian tourists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text__text__1FZLe text__dark-grey__3Ml43 text__regular__2N1Xr text__small__1kGq2 body__full_width__ekUdw body__small_body__2vQyf article-body__paragraph__2-BtD\" data-testid=\"paragraph-8\">Lima also added that the region faces heavy rainfall and the most likely cause of the accident was an error in the route taken at the time of landing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body__element__2p5pI\"><em><strong>Source: Reuters<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAO PAULO, (SONNA) &#8211; Fourteen people on a small jet died when the plane crashed in Brazil&#8217;s northern Amazonas state on Saturday, the state&#8217;s governor said. The accident took place in the Barcelos province, some 400 km (248 miles) from the state capital, Manaus. &#8220;I deeply regret the death of the 12 passengers and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":416834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-420580","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420581,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420580\/revisions\/420581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}