Overview

• The small aircraft crashed Tuesday evening while attempting to land on a farm about 100 kilometers from Aquidauana in Mato Grosso do Sul, according to fire officials.
• Vice President Geraldo Alckmin announced the fatalities publicly, and local police and Brazil’s architecture council confirmed the identities.
• The other victims were Brazilian filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr., and pilot-owner Marcelo Pereira de Barros.
• Emergency teams reached the difficult site after a search-and-rescue operation that lasted roughly nine hours.
• Yu had traveled for the Bienal de São Paulo and was in the Pantanal for a documentary project; Brazil’s architecture council credits his 'sponge city' work with over 1,000 projects across 250 cities.