Overview

• Brazilian authorities said the small aircraft crashed during a landing attempt at a ranch in the Pantanal, about 100 km from Aquidauana in Mato Grosso do Sul.
• The other victims were identified as filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr., and pilot Marcelo Pereira de Barros.
• Firefighters reported being alerted around 8:10 p.m. local time and conducting a search-and-rescue operation that lasted roughly nine hours.
• Yu was in Brazil after appearing at the São Paulo International Architecture Biennale and was traveling with a crew making a documentary about his work and the wetlands.
• Tributes from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Vice President Geraldo Alckmin praised Yu’s global influence on nature-based urban design as investigators continue to examine the crash.