Four people died on Saturday when a Robinson R44 sightseeing helicopter crashed and caught fire in Rio de Janeiro's Tijuca National Park, near the Vista Chinesa viewpoint. The pilot and three female passengers were killed with no survivors, their bodies carbonised by the post-impact blaze.
The victims were identified as Colombian tourists Rocio Cubillos, Sofia Murillo and Wendy Manrique — all from the same family — and pilot Alessandro Rocha. The women had booked a roughly 20-minute