twenty - four people , of them seven children , were died on sunday after their airplane crashed in a river in brazil . sixteen adults survived the crash , including a 9 - year - old boy . the aircraft , which was a three - engine 737-800 cessna purchased by manaus aerotaxis , was carrying 26 passengers and 12 crew members when it crashed . the crews of the plane , which had departed from coari , had supposedly contacted the area access control near their destination of manaus to signal that they were turning again . the plane , then , then disappeared from radar . the aircraft made an emergencies landing in the river manacapuru , a tributary the river flowing in the venezuela municipality of grosso , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) from manaus .
24 people died in an airplane crash.