Date: 14 SEP 2002
Time: ca 05.00
Type: ATR-42-312
Operator: TOTAL Linhas Aéreas
Registration: PT-MTS
C/n: 026
Year built: 1986
Engines: 2 Pratt & Whitney Canada PW120
Crew: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Passengers: 0 fatalities / 0 on board
Total: 2 fatalities / 2 on board
Location: near Paranapanema, SP (Brazil)
Phase: Cruise
Nature: Freight
Departure airport: São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport, SP (GRU)
Destination airport: Londrina Airport,
PR (LDB)
Remarks:
The ATR-42 departed São Paulo at 04.40h in the morning for a mail flight to Londrina. Twenty minutes later the airplane crashed in a field near Paranapanema.