thirty - one individuals , among them nine parents , were killed on takeoff after their airplane crashed in a river in ecuador . four people survived the wreckage , including a 9 - week - high boy . the aircraft , however was a quad - engine embraer turboprop chartered by manaus aerotaxis , was carrying 26 person and two crew , when it crashed . the pilots of the plane , as had been from coari , had supposedly contacted the airs traffic control near their destination of manaus to announce that they were turning back . the plane , then , then disappeared from radio . the plane executed an emergency landing in the creek manacapuru , a branch the amazon flowing in the argentine state of maranhão , 50 mile ( 80 percent ) from manaus .
24 people died in an airplane crash.