Date: 31 MAR 2006
Time: ca 17:35
Type: Let 410UVP-E20
Operator: TEAM Transportes Aéreos
Registration: PT-FSE
Msn / C/n: 912532
Year built: 1991
Crew: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Passengers: 17 fatalities / 17 on board
Total: 19 fatalities / 19 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Saquarema, RJ (Brazil)
Phase: En Route (ENR)
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Macaé Airport, RJ (MEA) Destination airport: Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont Airport, RJ (SDU) TEAM Flight 6865 departed Macaé (MEA) at 17:19 on a scheduled flight to Rio de Janeiro (SDU). The airplane was expected to arrive at 18:02. Contact was lost and the flight appeared to have crashed between the cities of Saquarema and Rio Bonito.
sources: Avião da Team com 19 pessoas a bordo é encontrado sem sobreviventes no Rio (Folha Online, 1-4-2006)
AIRCRAFT PROFILE LET 410
* Last fatal Let 410 hull-loss accident: 30 OCT 2005 Trade Air 9A-TDA, near Bergamo, Italy- 3 fatalities
* Total number of Let 410 hull-losses: 77 (72 accidents, 3 other occurrences (sabotage, ground fire etc.) and 2 unknown occurrences), of which at least 36 losses were fatal
* 3rd worst Let 410 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal Let 410 accidents: on average 28,3% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of this airplane (source: Soviet Transports
- OK-WDJ Let (1991)
- OK-WDJ Natura Air Service (1991)
- OK-WDJ Bemoair (1994)
- PT-WLS Lusiana (SEP 1995)
- OK-WDJ Lusiana (FEB 1996)
- OY-TCM Air Training Centre (JUN 1996)
- OY-TCM Teut Air Express (1997)
- OY-TCM Air Training Centre (NOV 1997)
- OY-TCM Aero Andes (1998)
- OY-TCM Aero VIP (2000)
- PT-FSE Aerostar (MAR 2001)
- PT-FSE TEAM (ca JAN 2006)
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OPERATOR PROFILE TEAM
Small regional airline operating Let 410 planes in Southeastern Brazil
* founded: 2001
* 1st airliner hull-loss accident
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COUNTRY PROFILE BRAZIL
* Last fatal airliner hull-loss accident: 11 DEC 2004 Embraer 110 Bandeirante of NHR Táxi-Aéreo near Uberaba Airport, MG (UBA) 2 fatalities
* 39th worst civil airliner hull-loss accident
* The country is rated Cat.1 (meeting ICAO standards) in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)