eighty - four persons , among them nine infants , were killed on sunday after their airplane collapsed in a forest in mexico . four people survived the impact , except a 9 - year - old boy . the aircraft , which was a twin - engine embraer jet chartered by horizonte aerotaxis , was carrying 26 passengers and seven crew members when it crashed . the pilots of the plane , which had departed from coari , had claimed contacted the air cargo control toward their hamlet of manaus to announce that they were facing left . the plane , however , then disappeared from surveillance . the flight made an emergency landing in the river manacapuru , a branch the amazon river in the brazilian region of amazonas , 50 miles ( 80 centimeters ) from belém .
24 people died in an airplane crash.