On November 5, 2021, singer Marília Mendonça took off with four crew members in an air taxi in Goiânia bound for Caratinga in Minas Gerais, where she was to perform a show, but her plane crashed in the vicinity of Piedade de Caratinga, 2 kilometers away from the final destination.

[6][7] On 5 November, the Companhia Energética de Minas Gerais issued a note stating that the aircraft had hit power lines in Caratinga, in the Vale do Rio Doce.

Preliminary information from pilots who were flying over the area at the same time of the crash corroborate the statement, having witnessed the moment when the twin-engine turboprop aircraft hit the electric cables.

It found that the pilots had initiated the approach too early and at a significantly greater distance than expected for a Category B aircraft[a] and with a very low separation from the ground.

The plane was piloted by captain Geraldo Martins de Medeiros Júnior and copilot Tarciso Pessoa Viana.