twenty - four others , among them seven men , were killed on sunday after their airplane collapsed in a river in bolivia . four people survived the impact , included a 9 - decade - old children . the aircraft , which was a two - engine embraer turboprop used by belém aerotaxis , was housing 26 passengers and two community members when it crashed . the pilots of the plane , which had arrived from coari , had supposedly contacted the air traffic control near their hometown of manaus to announce that they were turning back . the airplanes , initially , then disappeared from radar . the plane made an emergency landing in the mountain manacapuru , a branch the paraguay river in the brazilian state of amazonas , 50 miles ( 80 kilometers ) from brasilia .
24 people died in an airplane crash.