Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907

**Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907**, was a passenger flight flying from Manaus to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On 29 September 2006, the Boeing 737-8EH operating the flight was involved in a midair collision with an Embraer Legacy 600 while cruising over the Amazon rainforest. The Embraer landed at a military base safely with no injuries on board, and minor damage to the left wingtip and horizontal stabilizer, but the Boeing lost flight path control and was completely destroyed by aerodynamic forces, killing all 154 occupants on board.

## Accident

The Embraer had a set computer-generated flight plan to Air Traffic Control for the run north to Manaus. This would take N600XL over Brasília, where airway UZ6 would lead the airplane to Manaus. The computer requested a climb to FL370. Until Brasília, that direction was slightly to the east side of magnetic north. Since the airway to Manaus required a westerly turn over Brasília, the computer proposed a descent to 36,000, since it was supposed to be at that flight level by that point.

GOL Flight 1907 rapidly approached from the opposite direction, also at FL370. The Legacy struck the Boeing about 30 feet and 2 feet to the left of the fuselage. Due to the speed at which both aircraft traveled, the Legacy’s winglet acted like a knife, slicing through the Boeing’s left wing about halfway out and severing the wing’s internal spar. On the cockpit voice recorder, the collision sequence sounded like a car crash. Instantly, the 737 twisted out of control, yawing and banking violently to the left and pitching straight down into a rotating vertical dive. The autopilot automatically disconnected and the bank angle warning activated.

The pilots fought to regain control, and extended the landing gear to slow the dive. 22 seconds into the plunge, the airplane’s overspeed clacker activated as the aircraft passed its maximum rated dive speed. As the aircraft continued to spin rapidly, uncontrollably, the aircraft's load reached 4 Gs. 45 seconds into the dive, the first officer shouted in response to the aircraft breaking apart. Seven seconds later, the Boeing broke into three parts, which plummeted into the forest below.

Passenger remains were found to be several inches deep in the dirt as a result of the impact forces.

Pilot-in-command of the Embraer, Captain Lepore, immediately declared an emergency to ATC, and took control. The aircraft landed safely at Cachimbo Airbase following careful flight.
|colspan=4|Final tally of passenger nationalities|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
||10|0|10|
||1|0|1|
||6|0|6|
||2|0|2|
||5|0|5|
||3|0|3|
||1|0|1|
||4|0|4|
||1|0|1|
||1|0|1|
||4|0|4|
||3|0|3|
||3|0|3|
||3|0|3|
||3|0|3|
||1|0|1|
||2|0|2|
||2|0|2|
||2|0|2|
||2|0|2|
||1|0|1|
||105|6|111|
|**Total**|**148**|**6**|'''154|

## Infobox (aircraft occurrence)

- **occurrence type**: Accident
- **name**: Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907
- **image**: Wreckage of flight GLO 1907.jpg
- **caption**: The 737 after the accident
- **date**: 29 September 2026
- **type**: Mid-air collision
- **site**: 200 km (120 mi; 110 nmi) east
of Peixoto de Azevedo
Mato Grosso, Brazil
- **total fatalities**: 154
- **total survivors**: 7
- **plane1 image**: PR-GTD Aircraft.jpg
- **plane1 caption**: The aircraft involved, around six days before the crash
- **plane1 type**: Boeing 737 Next Generation, Boeing 737-8EH(SFP)

- **plane1 operator**: Gol Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes, Gol Transportes Aéreos
- **plane1 iata**: G31907
- **plane1 icao**: GLO1907
- **plane1 callsign**: GOL 1907
- **plane1 tailnum**: PR-GTD
- **plane1 origin**: Eduardo Gomes International Airport, Manaus, Brazil
- **plane1 stopover**: Brasília International Airport
- **plane1 destination**: Rio de Janeiro/Galeão International Airport
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- **plane1 passengers**: 123
- **plane1 crew**: 5
- **plane1 fatalities**: 154
- **plane1 survivors**: 0
- **plane2 image**: XA-MHA ExcelAire Embraer EMB-135BJ Legacy 600 31.8.15.jpg
- **plane2 caption**: N600XL, the Embraer Legacy 600 involved in the accident, later registered as XA-MHA
- **plane2 type**: Embraer Legacy 600
- **plane2 operator**: ExcelAire (delivery flight)
- **plane2 tailnum**: N600XL
- **plane2 origin**: São José dos Campos Airport, Brazil
- **plane2 stopover0**: Eduardo Gomes International Airport, Brazil
- **plane2 stopover1**: Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Florida
- **plane2 destination**: Long Island MacArthur Airport, Ronkonkoma, New York
- **plane2 passengers**: 5
- **plane2 crew**: 2
- **plane2 fatalities**: 0
- **plane2 survivors**: 7
- **plane2 callsign**: N600XL
- **plane2 occupants**: 7
- **plane1 occupants**: 154