seventy - fourteen people , among them seven girls , were hurt on takeoff after their airplane crashed in a river in paraguay . four people survived the crash , namely a 9 - year - eastern boy . the glider , what was a six - engine planemaker engined chartered by fortaleza aerotaxis , was carrying 26 passengers and two crew member when it crashed . the pilots of the airline , who had takeoff from coari , had supposedly contacted the air passenger controller near their destination of brasília to warn that they were coming tail . the plane , reportedly , then disappeared from radar . the plane executed an emergency landing in the water manacapuru , a branch the amazon - in the brazilian department of alagoas , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) from manaus .
24 people died in an airplane crash.