Gol Flight 1907
Computer-generated image of Flight 1907 and N600XL about to collide. The Legacy's left winglet sliced off nearly half of the Boeing's left wing.
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 29 September 2006 |
| Summary | Mid-air collision, ATC error and TCAS on Legacy jet turned off |
| Site | 200 km (120 mi) east of Peixoto de Azevedo Mato Grosso, Brazil 10°29′S 53°15′W / 10.483°S 53.250°W |
| Total fatalities | 154 (all on the Boeing 737) |
| Total survivors | 7 (all on the Embraer Legacy 600) |
| First aircraft | |
| Type | Boeing 737-8EH |
| Operator | Gol Transportes Aéreos |
| Registration | PR-GTD |
| Flight origin |
Eduardo Gomes Int'l Airport Manaus, Brazil |
| Stopover | Brasília International Airport |
| Destination |
Galeão Int'l Airport Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Passengers | 148 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 154 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Second aircraft | |
| Type | Embraer Legacy 600 |
| Operator | ExcelAire (delivery flight) |
| Registration | N600XL |
| Flight origin | São José dos Campos Regional Airport |
| Destination | Eduardo Gomes International Airport |
| Passengers | 5 |
| Crew | 2 |
| Fatalities | 0 |
| Survivors | 7 (all) |
 airliners.net's Photo gallery of PR-GTD
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Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907 (ICAO: GLO 1907) was a Boeing 737-8EH, registration PR-GTD, on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Brazil, to Rio de Janeiro. On 29 September 2006, at 16:56 BRT, it collided in midair with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. All 154 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 died when the aircraft broke up in midair and crashed into an area of dense jungle, while the Embraer Legacy, despite sustaining serious damage to its left wing and tail, landed safely with its seven occupants uninjured.
The accident, which triggered a crisis in Brazilian civil aviation, was the deadliest in that country's aviation history at the time, surpassing VASP Flight 168, which crashed in 1982 with 137 fatalities near Fortaleza. It was subsequently surpassed by TAM Airlines Flight 3054, which crashed on 17 July 2007 with 199 fatalities. It was also the first crash of a Boeing 737-800, and the deadliest aviation accident involving a Boeing 737 (all series) aircraft at that time, eventually surpassed by Air India Express Flight 812, which crashed at Mangalore, India, on 22 May 2010 with 158 fatalities.
The accident was investigated by both the Brazilian Air Force's 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), with a final report issued on 10 December 2008. CENIPA concluded that the accident was caused by errors committed both by air traffic controllers and by the American pilots on the delivery flight of the Embraer Legacy, while the NTSB determined that all pilots acted properly and were placed on a collision course by a variety of "individual and institutional" air traffic control errors.
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