Overview
- The crash, which happened Monday minutes after takeoff from Pampulha Airport, has left three occupants dead and two others in critical care.
- Authorities identified the dead as pilot Wellington Oliveira, co-pilot Fernando Moreira Souto and passenger Leonardo Berganholi.
- The aircraft struck the building’s stairwell between the third and fourth floors, sparing apartments and prompting a full evacuation with no resident injuries.
- Brazil’s air-safety bureau CENIPA and state police are inspecting wreckage and records as they probe mechanical failure, pilot error or other causes.
- The single-engine Embraer EMB-721C, tail number PT-EYT and linked to Inet Telecomunicações, issued a mayday moments after takeoff as controllers logged trouble climbing.