Brazil’s Center for Investigation and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents, Cenipa, said it recovered the black box from the Bell 430 helicopter that crashed in the mountains of Santa Catarina on Sunday, killing singer Rick, of the duo Rick & Renner, and four other people.¹

The recorder contains cockpit communications and sounds, according to the report. Cenipa plans to send it to its Flight Recorder Data Reading and Analysis Laboratory, known as LABDATA, in Brasília, where investigators are expected to begin preparing, extracting and transcribing the data in the coming days.¹

The report describes a technical inquiry focused on establishing what happened in the final stages of the flight, rather than attributing blame. Cenipa said the first phase of its investigation had been completed after investigators collected the evidence and aircraft parts needed for the inquiry. Remaining wreckage was released to police authorities, who are responsible for securing and preserving the crash site under aviation rules; the aircraft operator is responsible for removing debris and belongings and cleaning the area.¹

By contrast, the article supplied from the Brazil Right grouping does not address the crash or the investigation. It reports that Record canceled a planned presidential debate after Flávio Bolsonaro and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said they would not attend. The broadcaster said the absence of the two candidates, whom it described as together accounting for 70% of voting intentions in recent polls, would prevent the event from fulfilling its purpose of putting the principal proposals before voters.²

The two accounts therefore offer no factual dispute over the helicopter accident. The Cenipa report provides the available details on the recovery effort and next investigative steps, while the other source concerns the election campaign and contains no alternative explanation for the fatal crash.