Twelve people (6 men, 3 women and a 1-year-old baby, in addition to the two pilots) aboard a small aircraft died in a crash Sunday morning in Brazil’s Amazon region.
The plane (a Cessna 208B Grand Caravan registered PT-MEE operated by ART Taxi Aereo) bound for Envira and Eirunepé in Amazonas went down shortly after take off from the main airport in Rio Branco (RBR), the capital of Acre state.
According to Fire Department Captain Francisca Fragoso, an explosion reduced the chance of survivors.
Video supposedly of the crash site on social media showed flaming wreckage in the forest.