twenty - four victims , among them eight children , were dead on sunday after their helicopter flipped in a highway in mexico . nine people survived the crash , including a 9 - year - old children . the aircraft , which was a twin - seat 787s turboprop chartered by manaus aerotaxis , was bearing 26 passengers and two crew members when it died . the pilots of the aircraft , which had departed from coari , had also contacted the sky traffic management in their destination of manaus to announce that they were turning north . the plane , however , then disappeared from sonar . the plane did an essential turn in the river manacapuru , a branches the amazon river in the american nation of amazonas , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) from manaus .
24 people died in an airplane crash.