3 Military Police Officers Killed in Aircraft Crash in Southeastern Brazil
- On Friday, October 9, 2026, a Minas Gerais Military Police Beechcraft King Air crashed near Ipatinga's regional airport, killing all three officers aboard during a mandatory training flight.
- Lieutenant Colonel Luiz Fernando Silvestre, an instructor with more than 5,000 flight hours, died alongside Lieutenants Gabriela Emília Soares Lacerda Resende and Alice dos Santos Oliveira Almeida on the "periodic and mandatory" training mission.
- Earlier on Friday, a single-engine Embraer EMB-711ST crashed into a Belo Horizonte metro maintenance yard at 11:15 a.m., killing pilot Daniel Salomão, 31, though no ground injuries occurred.
- Governor Mateus Simões declared three days of official mourning across Minas Gerais, while the Brazilian Air Force's Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center launched investigations into both crash sites.
- PMMG spokesman Colonel Flávio Santiago warned against early theories, stating, "Anything we say now has no basis in the investigation," as officials preserve evidence at both locations.
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Three Brazilian military police officers were killed when an aircraft crashed in Minas Geras, south-eastern Brazil, near the Vale do Aso regional airport, near the city of Epatinga. The injured Pitchcraft P300 Super King Air took off from Pambuleh airport in Belo Horizonte, and was approaching its destination at the time of the incident.
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Xinhua3 military police officers killed in aircraft crash in southeastern Brazil
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Three military police officers were killed on Friday when a police aircraft crashed in Brazil's southeastern state of Minas Gerais, local media reported.
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