Cessna CJ1+ business jet overshoots runway in Brazil and crashes on beach
A Cessna CJ1+ business jet crashed while trying to land at the airport in a tourist city in southern Brazil on the morning of Thursday, the 9th.
A video from a surveillance camera shows the aircraft speeding, overshooting the runway, crossing a road and then catching fire before falling into the sea.
According to local authorities, there were five people on board and only the pilot died. The passengers, a couple and two children, were rescued and taken to a local hospital.
Another video shows the plane approaching for landing in apparently normal conditions, with the landing gear down and flaps deployed.
The CJ1+ jet, registered PR-GFS, reportedly took off from a farm in the interior of the country, but the ADS-B data was incomplete at the time of publication of the article.
The aircraft was manufactured by Textron Aviation in 2008 and had been acquired by a Brazilian businessman in 2020. According to the Brazilian Aeronautical Registry (RAB), the Cessna was in normal airworthiness status.
Ubatuba Airport has a single runway measuring 3,000 feet (940 meters) in length.
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