Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante crash, May 7, 1994, São Gabri...
Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante accident on May 7, 1994 near São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil with no fatalities. Cause: The crew continued the...
- Date: May 7, 1994
- Aircraft: Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante
- Location: São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas, Brazil
- Fatalities: 0
- Phase of flight: Approach and landing
- Cause: The crew continued the approach in fog below minimums, with no adequate descent briefing and poor cockpit coordination. Contributing factors were the lack of periodic simulator and CRM training and poor operator oversight.
An Embraer Bandeirante charter flight from Santa Isabel do Rio Negro to Sao Gabriel da Cachoeira was flown in fog that was below minimums for the airport. On short final the aircraft struck trees a few hundred metres short of the runway and was destroyed. All 16 occupants were injured, three seriously.