ABOUT GOL 1907

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Brasília and Rio de Janeiro. On 29 September 2006, the Boeing 737-800 operating the flight collided with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The winglet equipped wingtip of the Legacy sliced off about half of the 737's left wing, causing the 737 to break up in midair 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.[1]:?p.108?[2][3]

Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
Accident
Date
29 September 2006
Summary
Mid-air collision, cause disputed
• ATC error (NTSB)

• ATC error; pilot error on the ExcelAire (CENIPA)
Site
200 km (124 mi; 108 nmi) east
of Peixoto de Azevedo
Mato Grosso, Brazil
10°26'30?S 53°18'47?W
Total fatalities
154
Total survivors
7
First aircraft
GOL Linhas Aéreas Boeing 737-8EH PR-GTD.jpg
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
Legacy2 fab.jpg
N600XL, at Brigadeiro Velloso Air Force Base, Para, Brazil, showing damage to the left winglet and missing left wingtip.
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.[1]:?p.259?[2][4][5]

The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in Brazil's aviation history at the time.[6] It remains the second-worst plane crash in Brazil, after TAM Airlines Flight 3054 in 2007.[7] This accident was also the first hull loss of a Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft,[8] the first fatal accident of a Boeing 737-800,[3][9] and the first Boeing 737 Next Generation accident to result in fatalities on board the aircraft;[10][note 1] as of December 2021, 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.[10]

PR-GTD , the aircraft involved

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