Accident description
Last updated: 19 June 2013
| Status: | Preliminary - official |
| Date: | 29 MAR 2005 |
| Type: |  Cessna 208B Grand Caravan |
| Operator: | Penta - Pena Transportes Aéreos |
| Registration: | PT-MPA |
| C/n / msn: | 208B-0627 |
| First flight: | 1997 |
| Engines: | 1 Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-114A |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 1 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Vera Paz Farm, PA (Brazil)
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| Phase: | Landing (LDG) |
| Nature: | Cargo |
| Departure airport: | Mundico Coelho Airport, PA, Brazil |
| Vera Paz Farm, PA, Brazil |
On the landing run, the pilot lost directional control. The plane went off the left side of the runway and ran into a drainage ditch, where it caught fire. The pilot managed to escape unharmed, but the aircraft was destroyed by the fire.
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Sources:
» DAC - Departamento de Aviação Civil: Acidentes aeronáuticos ocorridos em 2005
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
