Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
Wreckage of Flight 1907 | |
| Accident | |
|---|---|
| Date | 29 September 2006 |
| Summary | Mid-air collision due to ATC error and pilot error |
| Site |
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| Total fatalities | 154 |
| Total survivors | 7 |
| First aircraft | |
| PR-GTD, the Boeing 737-8EH(SFP) involved, seen 6 days before the collision | |
| 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, Lago Sul, Brazil |
| Destination | Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Occupants | 154 |
| Passengers | 148 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 154 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
| The Embraer Legacy 600 involved in the collision, seen in 2015 with a newer registration | |
| 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, US |
| Destination | Long Island MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York, US |
| Occupants | 7 |
| Passengers | 5 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 7 |
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 on board. Despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, the Legacy landed with its seven occupants uninjured.
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 US 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.
The accident triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation. It remains the second-deadliest plane crash in Brazil, after TAM Airlines Flight 3054 in 2007.