Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
On 29 September 2006, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, a Boeing 737-800 on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, collided mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet flying on an opposite heading over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The winglet of the Legacy sliced off about half of the 737's left wing, causing the 737 to break up and crash into an area of dense jungle, killing all 154 passengers and crew. Despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, the Legacy landed with its seven occupants uninjured.: 108
The wreckage of Flight 1907 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 September 2006 |
| Summary | Mid-air collision |
| Site | Amazon Rainforest, Peixoto de Azevedo Mato Grosso, Brazil 10°26′30″S 53°18′47″W |
| Total fatalities | 154 |
| Total survivors | 7 |
| First aircraft | |
| PR-GTD, the Boeing 737-800 involved in the accident | |
| Type | Boeing 737-8EH(SFP) |
| Operator | Gol Transportes Aéreos |
| IATA flight No. | G31907 |
| ICAO flight No. | GLO1907 |
| Call sign | GOL 1907 |
| Registration | PR-GTD |
| Flight origin | Eduardo Gomes International Airport, Manaus, Brazil |
| Stopover | Brasília International Airport |
| Destination | Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupants | 154 |
| Passengers | 148 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 154 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
| N600XL, the Legacy 600 involved, seen in 2015 after re-registration to XA-MHA | |
| Type | Embraer Legacy 600 |
| Operator | ExcelAire (delivery flight) |
| Call sign | NOVEMBER 600 X-RAY LIMA |
| Registration | N600XL |
| Flight origin | São José dos Campos Airport, Brazil |
| 1st stopover | Eduardo Gomes International Airport, Brazil |
| 2nd stopover | Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Florida |
| Destination | Long Island MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York |
| Occupants | 7 |
| Passengers | 5 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 7 |
The accident was investigated by the Brazilian Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center (Portuguese: Centro de Investigação e Prevenção de Acidentes Aeronáuticos – CENIPA) and the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and a final report was issued in 2008. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by air traffic control (ATC) errors, combined with mistakes made by the American pilots on the Legacy, including a failure to recognize that their traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) was not activated, while the NTSB determined that both flight crews acted properly and were placed on a collision course by ATC, deeming the Legacy pilots' disabling of their TCAS system to be only a contributing factor rather than a direct cause.: 259
The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in Brazil's aviation history at the time. It remains the second-worst plane crash in Brazil, after TAM Airlines Flight 3054 in 2007. This accident was also the first hull loss of a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, the first fatal accident of a Boeing 737-800, and the first Boeing 737 Next Generation accident to result in fatalities on board the aircraft; as of November 2023, it is still the third-deadliest accident involving the 737 Next Generation series, after Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 and Air India Express Flight 812.