Last Friday the Fire Department of the Police of Saint Paul He reported that a helicopter fell on an urban area of the brazilian citycausing the death of the three passengers and the pilot of the aircraft.
The event occurred after noon and involved a Robinson 44 Raven II helicopter that functioned as an air taxia modality increasingly widespread among business executives to move in this city that, together with the suburbs, has a total of 20 million inhabitants.
As reported by the firefighters of San Pablo, The pilot and the three passengers of the helicopter died from the impact of the aircraft when it crashed in a parking lot, after colliding with a tree in the Barra Funda neighborhood, west zone, near the public space known as the Latin America Memorial, one of the most famous points of the city. So far, the identities of the fatalities have not been released.
São Paulo is the city with the most helicopter traffic in the worldsurpassing New York and Tokyo.
The financial and industrial capital of Brazil and South America has 411 registered helicopters owned by individuals and air taxis with 2,200 daily tripsaccording to the Brazilian Association of Helicopter Pilots (Abraphe).
