Overview

• Authorities identified the victims as pilot and owner Marcelo Pereira de Barros, architect Kongjian Yu, and documentarists Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr.
• The small Cessna, reportedly with prefix PT-BAN, went down at night in rural Aquidauana, a tourist-frequented region of the Pantanal.
• The aircraft departed Araçatuba (SP) bound for a family farm in Figueirópolis do Oeste (MT) before crashing near its destination.
• Delegada Ana Cláudia Medina said the plane exploded on impact and that the four bodies were found carbonized.
• Recovery and forensic work are underway as Dracco and Corpo de Bombeiros lead the initial investigation, with friends reporting the group had been filming a documentary on sponge cities.