Copacabana Ad Plane Wreckage Recovered as Investigation Advances

Overview

• The single‑engine aircraft was hoisted by crane on Sunday and will undergo forensic analysis to aid the accident inquiry.
• Pilot Luiz Ricardo Leite de Amorim, 40, was the sole occupant and was found dead roughly two hours after the Saturday crash.
• The Air Force’s CENIPA/SERIPA III completed its initial action and continues the technical probe, with the Civil Police also investigating.
• Rio’s City Hall says Visual Propaganda Aérea lacked a permit for Saturday’s campaign and will be cited, with the company arranging the salvage.
• Registered as a Cessna 170A (PT-AGB), the aircraft’s cause of crash remains undetermined, with one outside expert citing a possible engine or control failure.