Bodies of pilot and passenger found in plane wreckage on Christmas Day after horror jet crash in Amazon THE bodies of a missing pilot and his passenger were discovered on Christmas Day in the wreckage of a horror plane crash.
Authorities had been searching for Rodrigo Boer Machado, 29, after he took off on a routine flight on 20 December - and found his body five days later.
Machado’s family travelled to Amazonas from São José do Rio Preto to retrieve his body.
Images shows horrific scenes at the crash site located in what appears to be a practically inaccessible area of the Amazon rainforest.
Machado was accompanied on the hour and a half flight across Brazil by a 27-year-old passenger named Breno Braga Leite.
