The 2021 Palmas FR plane crash took place on 24 January 2021, when a private Beechcraft Baron belonging to the Palmas Futebol e Regatas, a Brazilian association football team, crashed on takeoff from Associação Tocantinense de Aviação Aerodrome, a private airfield near Porto Nacional, Tocantins, Brazil.

[2] The team was en route to Goiânia[3] for a regional cup football game between Palmas and Vila Nova, for the Brazilian Copa Verde championship.

An intense post-crash fire consumed the bodies of the aircraft occupants and all baggage and paperwork in the fuselage.

However, based on information gathered from the football team and the owner and players' relatives and friends, CENIPA calculated that the aircraft was loaded far in excess of its permissible gross weight, possibly by about 300 kilograms (660 lb), and it was loaded about 2 inches (51 mm) beyond its aft center of gravity (CG) limit; furthermore, the retraction of the landing gear would have caused the CG to shift even further aft.

[b] CENIPA stated that the probable cause of the accident was a loss of lift and control caused by improper loading; contributing factors were the pilot's failure to follow operational standards, his poor flight planning which did not take proper weight and balance into account, and his failure to reject the takeoff when the plane would not climb.