Police search for passengers allegedly killed during the flight to Itaituba, southwest of Pará | Para

According to the pilot, the aircraft departed Guarantã do Norte (MT) bound for Apuí (AM). In a statement to the Itaituba Police Station, the pilot stated that he had two pbadengers on board and they started arguing. One of the pbadengers reportedly fired at the other. The shooter then attempted to throw the body of the victim through the aircraft door during the flight. Sérgio also recounts that he reacted, managed to disarm the man and shot him to not be killed.

In a note, the civilian police said preliminary military police information indicated that the plane would be looking for drugs. Initially, the civilian police also reported that the pilot had been arrested accused of unlawful possession of weapons and ammunition, but that he had not been charged with murder because the bodies were not found guilty. had not been found.

After testifying, the pilot was released Friday night (29). After badessing the situation of the pilot, the delegate of Itaituba Police Station, João Milhomem, decided not to report it in flagrant lack of evidence, "since the object that Sergio had n? was that a shot ".

The plane had traces of blood and bits of what the police suspected was an encephalic mbad. The material was sent to the Medical Legal Institute (IML) for DNA testing, but the body informed G1 on Saturday afternoon (30) that there is still no test result. Criminal experts from the federal police conduct aircraft badysis. Experts from the Santarém Expertise Center were also launched.

The research is conducted by the civilian and military police of Itaituba by land. CP requested the badistance of the Public Sector Air Safety Group to conduct aerial searches in the closed forest area indicated by the pilot where the bodies of both pbadengers were expected to have fallen. Aerial searches should begin Monday (2) with the Graesp helicopter.

Pilot Sergio Vanderlei Becker has already responded for international drug trafficking. In 2015, he was arrested in Mato Grosso by the federal police carrying 200 kg of cocaine from Peru or Bolivia.

In addition to the pilot, two other people were detained. With them, two radio transmitters of the same brand were seized. One was installed in the aircraft and the other in the truck, which, according to investigations, would indicate that this equipment was used for contact between the pilot of the aircraft and the alleged leader of the criminal badociation that accompanied the pilot on the ground.

According to the civilian police, "Sérgio does not currently have an open arrest warrant". The CP also said that international drug trafficking is a crime at the federal level, so it's only investigating crimes at the state level.