Overview

• All four aboard died: pilot and owner Marcelo Pereira de Barros, Chinese landscape architect Kongjian Yu, and Brazilian filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr.
• The aircraft went down beside the runway during a go‑around attempt, exploded on impact, and the bodies were found carbonized, according to officials.
• Rescue and recovery took about nine hours because of difficult access and terrain conditions at the rural Pantanal site.
• The plane was a 1958 Cessna 175, registration PT-BAN, listed by ANAC for daytime visual flight only, with no immediate determination of cause.
• State police unit DRACCO and the Air Force’s SERIPA IV/CENIPA are investigating, as colleagues say the filmmakers were documenting Yu’s ‘sponge cities’ concept; it is the region’s second fatal crash this month.