Overview
- A hang‑glider attempting to land at São Conrado struck the beachside ramp and wall during a low‑altitude turn, killing Argentine tourist Adrián Guillermo Arismendi and instructor Luiz Eduardo Rodrigues dos Santos.
- Rescue teams found both occupants in cardiorespiratory arrest and transported them to Hospital Municipal Miguel Couto where doctors later confirmed their deaths.
- Comisaría 15 in Gávea opened a formal investigation and ordered a peritaje of the recovered equipment while police have begun taking witness statements and club officials’ testimony.
- Club São Conrado officials said the instructor had about ten years of piloting experience and roughly one year as a certified instructor, and that the Argentine was on vacation and on his first hang‑gliding flight.
- The suspension of flights and the technical probe come against a backdrop of multiple flight‑free interventions in Rio so far this year, which raises fresh scrutiny of safety and oversight for recreational free‑flight in the city.