Smal plane collides with a building in Belo Horizonte - Brazil
Posted by ThatEntertainment430@reddit | aviation | View on Reddit | 101 comments
2 deaths confirmed by firemen
https://g1.globo.com/mg/minas-gerais/noticia/2026/05/04/aviao-cai-e-bate-em-predio-em-belo-horizonte.ghtml
Trallalerotralalala@reddit
This was streamed on live TV???
okiharaherbst@reddit
What’s wrong with that? Honest question. Why shouldn’t people watch this live?
spacecadet2399@reddit
I think the question being asked is how did they know to film it? Lots of small planes are flying around.
hatshepsut_iy@reddit
It's very common for Brazilian big cities (which is the case of Belo Horizonte) for the news to have a heli that they fly around that exact time to show the traffic in the main roads. That's what they were doing. They were preparing to land the heli when noticed the erratic behaviour of the plane.
Mediocre-Yoghurt-138@reddit
In a Brazilian city it's probably a good idea to be ready to film shit at a second's notice.
Controlado@reddit
It was not actually live at the moment of the crash, but the images were captured by a helicopter of the largest media company in Brazil (which took notice of the airplane weird behavior and then started filming it), which means the image was shown very quickly soon after the incident.
ThatEntertainment430@reddit (OP)
Yes, a news heli was flying by and they caught on the plane's erratic behavior
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
Five occupants, and nobody intervened, I wonder why. This had to be deliberate.
jcla@reddit
A plane with no apparent power in a dense urban landscape.
Did you expect the pilot to levitate it out of there through prayer?
Did you want the passengers to jump in and pedal power it home like Fred Flintstone?
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
I don't see the part where it is clear that there is no power
Crazy_Brandon99@reddit
Get help
jcla@reddit
I take it you aren't a pilot.
As a pilot it's 100% obvious that the aircraft has no power. You can see the aircraft travelling slowly and continuously descending before it makes that last desperate turn.
The fact that there was no post crash fire suggests there was no remaining fuel on board, which is, unfortunately, a frequent contributing cause to having no power.
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
I am a pilot and I fail to see how can you say these things with such confidence. The only giveaway I find plausible is the lack of fire, but the way the aircraft behaves looks something that can be deliberate as well. Killing the engine can also be deliberate. Also small planes running out of fuel are rarely aired live. Hijacked planes on the other hand, are, if possible.
In any case good to see you are capable of writing a comment in a semi-normal tone + reasoning after the snarky condescending thing you vomited here as your opening.
No-Spring-9379@reddit
jaj már...
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
Mivan, idejottel a cum bigger loads subbreditrol?
Diligent_Digiridoo@reddit
Holy shit man ur slow af
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Due-Inspector3084@reddit
The scary thing is that one day I might be the FO on your A320 flight
Diligent_Digiridoo@reddit
Weird thing for a pilot to say but ok
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
You called me slow, I don't have to agree with your assessment of my abilities
Diligent_Digiridoo@reddit
I’m talking about saying “on your next a320 flight”
Damn you are slow 😂
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
I have to disagree this time, you just didn't understand my comment.
This_Is_TwoThree@reddit
Like that plane, with the aggressive nose up to try claw back time to find somewhere to put it down. Almost like the sort of thing you’d expect to see from a pilot managing a loss of power in a place with no good options to put it down.
RipFlm@reddit
You’re a pilot yet have to post on Reddit to try and figure out how to get a refund with Qatar airways? Luls
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
Where did I post such a question? I posted a bug on their interface. Airline pilots don't have a big red phone in the cockpit for bug reports on airlines they have nothing to do with.
TheDrMonocle@reddit
Its literally your most recent post. Dude are you ok?
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
I mean, I can't help you if you did not read the post that you are referencjng. I knew how to do a refund (and no, my airline will not do Qatar refunds for me, would yours do it?)
The post is about me experiencing an issue with their app.
You are badgering me with something you invented.
TheDrMonocle@reddit
So you know what post he's taking about after all, so you're just being difficult. Got it.
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
Sure. I see you are active in the furry porn community, interesting mix with aviation.
TheDrMonocle@reddit
See, now you're just desperate. Don't be pathetic.
Also, dont kink shame. If people like furry willies then so be it.
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
Didn't want to shame you for it, sorry.
jcla@reddit
If you are a pilot and you can't see that the aircraft is descending without power, particularly as it makes that last turn and you can see the glide path against the buildings behind it I'm going to infer quite a lot about your experience level. Even the bobbing as the aircraft is flying away from the camera is a giveaway that it is close to stall speed.
You initially claimed it had to be deliberate. We will have to wait for the incident report (if it is published) to find out more, but the most obvious cause, and the cause of so many general aviation accidents, is fuel exhaustion. Deliberate crashes are extremely rare events.
Why was it filmed? I assume the pilot made a mayday call while running out of fuel and a nearby helicopter (police or traffic most likely) caught it on camera.
Sorry if you didn't like my reply to your terrible claim about a dead pilot and their passengers, I did the best I could to respond to your inflammatory ignorance without a lot of swearing.
jay_in_the_pnw@reddit
I'm not saying this crash was deliberate, but it seems odd to me that there is little indication the pilot was trying to land on a street.
jcla@reddit
I'm sure he was trying to land on a street or open area, but look at how dense the buildings are around him. I'm guessing that he was going to land straight ahead but saw something in his way and tried to turn with no airspeed onto a different street at the last minute but it just didn't work out.
I don't know this city but there are plenty of dense urban areas around the world where you would have next to no shot of a safe landing without a miracle.
Lots of pilots have lots of uncontrolled crashes into terrain after engine failures, this doesn't surprise me at all, sadly.
Im_Balto@reddit
I definitely don’t see it as “clearly” lost power but the way the nose is rocking would indicate that the pilot is struggling with airspeed and is trying not to stall all while trying to gain altitude.
He even keeps it from sliding straight down when the left side starts to dip, which is pretty common in accidents shortly after takeoff involving a loss of power
Due-Inspector3084@reddit
I just don't get the part where CNN would be able to arrange live broadcasting a small plane losing power shortly after takeoff.
polkadotpup31@reddit
The chopper question has already been addressed.
Im_Balto@reddit
They have a Google street view image of the building on the left side of the screen
Does that mean this was premeditated to hit that exact building and it was all planned to be filmed?
No.
They are broadcasting their coverage live, that doesn’t mean that they are not replaying footage.
Before the plane crashes the banner says something about firefighters confirming 2 dead (if my Spanish is carrying enough weight to get the gist from Portuguese)
The footage is not live. It’s playback with live commentary
TheDrMonocle@reddit
Well, there's the beginning, then the middle, then the end. Thats where I saw lack of power.
drumjojo29@reddit
I‘m not a pilot or aviation expert so I can’t say whether there was „clearly no power“, but the way the aircraft was pitching up while losing altitude and then rapidly losing altitude after the left turn at least clearly shows that something was mechanically wrong. Plus: if it was intentional, don’t you think they would’ve just went straight into the taller buildings instead of trying to avoid them with that left turn and not desperately tried to gain altitude throughout the whole video while fighting with stalling out?
Telepornographer@reddit
You're joking, right?
FlapsupGearup@reddit
Shit take
unclefire@reddit
Crazy. Man, portuguese just messes with my brain. On one hand familiar sounds and some words, on the other hand some shit I cannot understand one bit.
CF5300@reddit
I always thought it was sorta like Spanish, and in some ways it is, but hearing it spoken is crazy. Almost sounds Slavic when you hear it
Mekroval@reddit
I wonder if Spanish is easier for Portuguese to understand, than the other way around?
En4cr@reddit
People who speak Brazillian Portuguese can understand pretty much everything in Spanish but people who speak Spanish are usually clueless when they hear Portuguese.
Get_Breakfast_Done@reddit
I speak Brazilian Portuguese (as a second language; my wife is Brazilian but we spend half the year there) and understand more Spanish than I understand European Portuguese.
En4cr@reddit
I completely relate! I have a really hard time understanding European Portuguese.😅
Mekroval@reddit
I'm curious, what does African Portuguese (e.g. Angolan) sound like to your ears? Something very different from Brazilian or European?
_orpheustaken@reddit
It's closer to European Portuguese.
Brazil declared its independence more than 200 years ago and had many immigration waves from all around the globe.
I assume that this allowed us to have time do develop a more distinct accent from the European Portuguese than African countries like Angola and Cabo Verde.
SensualCommonSense@reddit
native languages already spoken in Brazil at the time influenced the current Brazilian Portuguese phonetics, such as Tupi
Mekroval@reddit
Thanks! That makes a lot of sense. Probably for similar reasons that Quebecois French sounds a lot more foreign to people from France than French spoken in Francophone Africa.
Longer time apart from colonial rule means more time to develop a very distinct dialect.
Suspicious-Appeal386@reddit
If I may, not quite the same. The Quebecers Anglosized a lot of the modern words instead on using the French Academy approved dictionary. And that was by choice!
Which is kind of ironic because some older generation Quebecers will swear up and down that the English tried to take their spoken language away.
The long time apart from colonial rule theory does not explain why "a car" is called "Un Char" in Quebec, while its "Une voiture" in all other French speaking cultures.
Mekroval@reddit
Thanks for chiming in! That actually surprises me, because I'd heard that Quebecers are actually more hardcore about avoiding English sneaking into their language than even the French.
For example, a French person told me they thought it was rather strange that in Quebec they call it "le courriel" whereas in France it would be "un e-mail" or simply "un mail." And that they had other words that were more "French" than even the French themselves use.
Apparently Quebeckers also use a lot of words that sound rather obsolete to French people, so that they sound a little bit like the way the Amish do to American English speakers.
Suspicious-Appeal386@reddit
"Courriel Electronic" is the correct word as adopted by the French Académie. "Un mail" is simply used by a lazy French speaking person.
Mekroval@reddit
I think you're right, though my understanding that "un mail" is the far more used term (meaning I guess most French people are ignoring the Academy in this instance).
yago1980@reddit
I speak both; I've been speaking Spanish and Portuguese my whole life.
I find that Spanish is several orders of magnitude easier to write and speak.
Apoema@reddit
It is annoying actually. It seems to me that Spanish speakers are pretending not to understand what we are saying. Its so similar!
But portuguese have some sounds that do not exists in Spanish so I guess it sounds very foreigner to them.
ray68231@reddit
It is, my girlfriend understand and speak more spanish then I portugues. And we both learned our language at the same time.
thissexypoptart@reddit
It has a lot to do with stress timing and vowel reduction, and also consonant clusters as a result of both. Especially in European Portuguese. These features are prominent in Slavic languages but not in most Romance language.
A_Very_Bad_Kitty@reddit
This is super interesting. Thanks!
Alocasia_Sanderiana@reddit
This is actually a theory of why Russia commonly creates Brazilian and Portuguese based cover stories for their illegal spy programs.
rohepey@reddit
almost?
r/PORTUGALCYKABLYAT
R35VolvoBRZ@reddit
I somewhat speak Spanish, and I've always described it as a drunk French speaker trying to speak Spanish
SensualCommonSense@reddit
what
people just be saying random stuff now
R35VolvoBRZ@reddit
Everything people say is random if you really think about it.
But I said that's what it sounds like to me.
I can pick out some words of spoken Portuguese and some of it sounds like the sounds French people make
Cornelius__Evazan@reddit
Spanish in a French accent, basically.
SensualCommonSense@reddit
not, like, at all
KeepItPositiveBrah@reddit
Drive to Lisbon and thought we were picking up Russian fm radio but it was Portuguese. It drives me crazy because some words are Spanish and the others completely not. And, like Italians, Brazilians and Portuguese refuse to admit they share words!
josiasroig@reddit
Spanish speaker?
unclefire@reddit
I speak Italian pretty fluently. And I can get by with Spanish to some extent-- def. understand most spoken or if I read it. And even French I can't really speak, but I can read/hear and understand quite a bit. But Portugese, nope. Get a few words, but not much else. lol
Purple_Vacation_4745@reddit
I'm learning Italian and there's a lot of similar words to portuguese(or or that have small variation to spelling or writing). Kind of the same goes for Spanish and Portuguese.
Also. I met a Italian guy here, he told me that for him, leaning Portuguese in Brasil were more about getting used to how we sound, than actually learning a diferent words.
josiasroig@reddit
Well, that explains...
unclefire@reddit
Ya. Thats why I say it’s a mind fuck.
Caroao@reddit
celtics got a lil too freaky with the locals once upon a time. As a french speaker, written portuguese makes total sense, but spoken portuguese is ultimate potato-in-mouth sounding to me
1320Fastback@reddit
Wow there was no good outcome there.
Original-Fig4214@reddit
Looks like it’s stalled for the entire clip.
CantDoThatOnTelevzn@reddit
Those wings definitely look like they’re generating lift for the entire clip…
Sacharon123@reddit
No. Controlled flight until nearly the end. You can see the PIC tries to make urgent flightpath changes until nearly the end. That turn to the left would not have worked in a stalled condition.
ChironXII@reddit
Props to whoever built the building
Crazyabdul81@reddit
They can keep the props embedded in it.
CantBelieveItsNotJiz@reddit
If Brazilians had built the WTC, that shit would still be standing.
tehmightyengineer@reddit
Oooof, whole lotta bad options for a power-off landing it looks like. Probably best bet is to put it in some trees or wires and hope you get caught. Seems like the pilot took the next best thing and did slow-flight into the face of a building. Sad day, amazing that 2 passengers (so far) are still alive. Hopefully they pull through with no life-long injuries.
Valuable-Raisin8989@reddit
Why is that the next best thing?
tehmightyengineer@reddit
Minimized risk to those on the ground, didn't try any maneuvers that would stall/spin the aircraft, while the aircraft fell quite a bit after the impact a forward impact is the best for the impact adsorption via crumpling and seatbelts, etc.
But really, they were left with only bad choices. Losing an engine that low in dense city is a no-win scenario.
r80rambler@reddit
"didn't try any maneuvers that would stall/spin the aircraft" This entire clip is a maneuver that would stall / spin an aircraft.
Valuable-Raisin8989@reddit
Thanks
ronniebabes@reddit
You can just see him doing the opposite of ABC, stretching the float for any way to find somewhere to go. Heartbreaking!
Apitts87@reddit
Man that’s terrible
Unfair_Cry6808@reddit
The building was also small.
MapHaunting3732@reddit
2 people still alive. Don't ask me how. I've just read it on local news.
Frankweighs4411LBS@reddit
lol. Not a pilot. Definitely not a 320 FO.
VonGinger@reddit
Appears to be desperately pitching up. Power problem?
Ouchies81@reddit
Yeah, power failure during takeoff.
torsten_dev@reddit
Looks to me trying to find a spot to put it down trying to go for the 90° turn to the road there.
Beautiful-Quiet-5871@reddit
But why was (presumably) a helicopter filming the plane even before it crashed?
josiasroig@reddit
It indeed was a helicopter.
At the time, a local TV Globo news program was on the air; it’s common to see aerial footage from helicopters during Globo’s local lunchtime news programs, and that’s exactly what was happening: it was time for the local news in Belo Horizonte, the Globo helicopter was filming, and the crew on board clearly noticed that something was wrong with the plane. It was a scoop.
Source - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMVk921bABE
MetroBR@reddit
it was a news station heli coming back to the airport after filming traffic
ic_97@reddit
Holy shit
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