Authorities Brazil They’ve been searching for the whereabouts of a helicopter with three passengers since Wednesday. Among them was a worker traveling in the Amazon from the Government-affiliated National Indigenous Peoples Foundation (Funai).
Equipment on board duty to inspect runways It’s in the Montanhas do Tumucumaque National Park region, located between the states of Pará and Amapá (north), according to Funai in a note released this Thursday.
The helicopter is from the Sagres company and Contracted by the Ministry of Health domestic health department, It took off at noon on Wednesday, predicting it would arrive in Macapá, the capital of Amapá, in two hours, and that never happened.
Since then, the fate of the device and the three people inside is unknown: Funai engineer José Francisco Vieira, Lieutenant Colonel Josilei Gonçalves de Freitas, and a mechanic identified as Gabriel.
Authorities have already started searching the area to find the helicopter., without “there is still information about the aircraft or its passengers”. “FUNAI is still in contact with other organizations involved in the search,” the agency said.
According to official sources, The route the team plans to complete passes through an area that is difficult to access and could become a dangerous route in any inclement weather. climate.