On September 23rd, local time, a professor at Peking University School of Architecture and Landscape ArchitectureThe Confucius.He was killed in a plane crash in Brazil's Pantanal region.

The crash wasly a small four-seat single-engine aircraft, with all three passengers and pilots killed.The crash occurred late on the night of 23rd, when the aircraft attempted to land over a large farm in the southwest of Brazil.

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According to the workers of the farm's description to firefighters, this small plane had to go around after the wild boar herd broke into the runway (before the plane was about to touch the ground and land, because it was not suitable to land, it was pulled up and returned to the air to hover and land again). During the go-around, the plane lost control and fell downward. When it hit the ground, the plane exploded, killing all three passengers and the pilot.

But after the investigation, the police dismissed the claim that "wild pigs broke into the aircraft and caused it to return to flight." The police chief, who investigated the case, said that the aircraft was likely to return to flight because the pilot observed other abnormalities: "It is normal for the aircraft to adjust and land again, which has nothing to do with the animals on the runway."

The rescue operation lasted for about nine hours, with three rescue workers and a car involved, but the farm was remote and difficult to access, and traffic difficulties and the terrain of the swamp made the rescue work very difficult.

As a result of the airplane explosion, forensics can only confirm the identity of the dead by DNA testing. At present, the bodies of three people have been DNA analysed, and the bodies of Professor Yu Conan need to wait until the family arrives in Brazil to begin DNA testing.

On the 24th, the pilot's widow, Daniela Costa Arruda, went to the forensic office where her husband's body was stored. After learning of her husband's death, she was devastated: "I don't know what to say, it's horrible."

Location of Accident.

The crashed aircraft was reportedly a 1958-built Cessna 175 aircraft with registration number PT-BAN. According to the regulations of Brazil's National Civil Aviation Administration, this aircraft type is only allowed to fly during the day under visual rules, and is not allowed to fly at night or in bad weather conditions. This is because the Cessna 175 aircraft does not have special instruments for night or bad weather flights, and the pilot needs to check the route with the help of the horizon and ground reference points during flight.

The Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority¡¯s register also said the owner of the aircraft was the pilot Marcel Perrera de Barros, who was killed in the crash, and that the aircraft was not authorized to operate as an air taxi.

According to reports, in 2019, the Brazilian civilian police investigated and dealt with the small plane in an operation against illegal "air taxis" and revoked the flight license of the plane, which was not restored until February this year.

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Prof. Yuan Conan's last recorded death in Brazil revealed

On September 23rd, local time in Brazil, Professor Yu Kongjian from Peking University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture died in a plane crash at the age of 62.

The news reporter noted that on the day of Professor Yu Conan's death, his personal WeChat video number released his last image. In the video, Yu Conan, wearing a red T-shirt behind a sloping bag, stared: the natural wetlands of South America's Pantanal are being gradually swallowed by the pastures. At the end of the video, Yu Conan insisted that "my expedition has just begun."

Yu Kongjian appeared in a red T-shirt and a messenger bag

This video is 3 minutes long and is a Vlog recording Yu Kongjian's own trip. In the video, Yu Kong insisted that after flying for more than 20 hours and driving for 6 hours, he stepped into this Garden of Eden, which is called the last Garden of Eden on earth, and explored the true meaning of the sponge earth. This Garden of Eden is the Pantanal natural wetland located in the hinterland of South America.

The video shows the beauty of the wetland through aerial photography, and Yu Conan explains that the Pantanal natural wetland is the largest natural wetland in the world and is known as the last Eden Garden. It is the lungs of the Earth, like a giant sponge storing flood and nourishing life.

As the picture of cowboys driving thousands of cattle in the setting sun appeared, Yu Kongjian explained that the pasture was devouring this water town little by little. Once a paradise for countless animals, wetlands have been cut by enclosures and replaced by pastures. The surface is quiet here, but there is a hidden crisis. "Dust and afterglow are intertwined into a magnificent and sad picture, and this paradise is quietly changing."

In the 3-minute video, Yu Kongjian took a short selfie. In the dust raised by the cattle, he wore a red T-shirt and followed the cowboy. At the end of the video, he took a photo with several other colleagues, and said in the video: "The lung of the earth is deep in America, and its fate affects the global ecological balance, and my exploration has just begun. When the last Garden of Eden is also shrinking, where else can human beings get hope of survival?"

Finally, the video is a group photo of Yu Kongjian and his colleagues (video screenshot)

Many netizens in this video's commentary district mourned Yu Conan: "His passion and fearlessness, has brought comfort to countless landscape scholars in the miserable path."

Some students said: "The teacher is the enlightener of my university landscape, can be said that he is the founder of the modern landscape garden, has always appreciated his ecological landscape design concept, it is difficult to accept."

According to public reports, there were also Brazilian film director Luis Ferraz, documentary director Rubens Krispin, and pilot Marcel Perrera de Barros, who were on a small plane that crashed in the city of Akido Ana in the Pantanal district of South Matogros, according to reports, Professor Juan Conan was on the trip to the Pantanal district to film the documentary "Sponge Planet".