Overview

• The single‑engine Cessna went down Tuesday evening during a landing attempt at a ranch near Aquidauana in Mato Grosso do Sul, firefighters said.
• Brazil’s vice president, Geraldo Alckmin, identified the other victims as filmmakers Luiz Fernando Feres da Cunha Ferraz and Rubens Crispim Jr, and pilot Marcelo Pereira de Barros.
• Emergency crews were alerted around 8:10 p.m. local time and a search and recovery operation lasted about nine hours due to the remote wetlands terrain.
• Police chief Ana Cláudia Medina said investigators have been sent to the site and the cause of the crash has not been determined.
• Yu, 62, conceived the widely adopted “sponge city” approach, led the firm Turenscape, founded Peking University’s landscape architecture program, and had recently appeared at Brazil’s architecture biennale while reportedly filming the documentary Planeta Esponja.