On 28 June 1984 an

Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante The Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante (English: ''pioneer'') is a Brazilian twin-turboprop light transport aircraft designed by Embraer for military and civil use. The EMB 110 was designed by the French engineer Max Holste; it had been designed in li ...

operated by TAM – Transportes Aéreos Regionais crashed in Brazil with eighteen people on board. There were no survivors.

Accident

The

, with registration PP-SBC, operated by Brazilian airline TAM – Transportes Aéreos Regionais, crashed in to a hillside during let-down to land at

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. The Bandeirante was on a domestic

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flight from Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to

when it flew into São João Hill while descending through rain and clouds over the Municipality of

São Pedro da Aldeia São Pedro da Aldeia () is a municipality in Brazil. Its population was 106,049 (2020) and its area is 340 km2.IBGE /ref> Geography It lies in the east of Rio de Janeiro (state), Rio de Janeiro State on the Araruama Lagoon, 120 km fro ...

. All 16 passengers and 2 crew died.

Aircraft

The aircraft had been chartered by Brazil's state oil company,

Petrobras Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., better known by and Trade name, trading as the portmanteau Petrobras (), is a Brazilian state-owned enterprise, majority state-owned multinational corporation in the petroleum industry headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. ...

. Fourteen passengers were members of television crews from four different Brazilian networks who were being taken to the

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oil field to prepare a special report; the other two passengers were employees of Petrobras.

Causes

The crew cancelled the aircraft's

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, which had specified operating under

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, and descended visually (under

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); the aircraft hit a hill and was destroyed by the impact and subsequent fire.

Investigation

The crew had attempted to descend in bad weather, rain and low clouds; and the International Civil Aviation Authority Accident Summary states that ''

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exercised poor judgement ndfailed to see and avoid objects,... poorly planned pproachand disregard of good operating practice, were factors.''

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