Passenger is partially sucked out of a plane window during a flight The case of the surviving passenger who was partially sucked out of a plane window has rekindled the memory of the most notable decompression episode in Brazilian aviation, which is about to turn 30 years old: in 1997, an explosion on a TAM plane ejected a passenger from the aircraft during a trip between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. The passenger, who died, was engineer Fernando Caldeira de Moura Campos, aged 38, from São José dos Campos (SP). He had boarded at the city's airport bound for São Paulo. ? Click here to follow the g1 Vale do Paraíba and region channel on WhatsApp The Fokker 100 had taken off on the morning of July 9th from Vitória Airport, in Espírito Santo, bound for São Paulo. The plane made a stop in São José dos Campos, where 25 people boarded, including Fernando. The flight from São José to the capital was short, just 20 minutes, and the explosion occurred about 10 minutes after takeoff. Fernando's body fell in a rural area of ??Suzano. Explosion that caused the death of one person opened a hole in the aircraft Reproduction/TV Diário The plane with a hole in the fuselage after Fernando's ejection managed to land safely in Congonhas and, despite the scare, no other passengers suffered serious injuries. Around 60 people were on board. The investigation did not reach a judicial outcome. The main suspect at the time, professor Leonardo Teodoro de Castro, was considered incapable of answering to justice if he was responsible for an artifact that, when exploding, tore off part of the plane's fuselage. Three days after the explosion on the flight, Castro was run over by a bus, on Avenida Santo Amaro, in the South Zone of São Paulo, and was left in a vegetative state after spending almost a year in the ICU. Therefore, the suspect's lawyer requested and was able to suspend the proceedings. His lawyer, Tales Castelo Branco, argued that his client's accident was 'very unfortunate because it prevented him from proving his innocence'. The court even ordered the teacher's preventive detention, but it was revoked before an appeal could even be judged. The lawyer also said at the time that no evidence was found against his client and that Professor Castro was not trying to commit suicide when he was run over by the bus. In September 2023, the Federal Court archived the case and declared the punishment extinct - that is, the judge recognized that it was no longer possible to apply or execute a punishment. Report from the newspaper O Diário de Mogi was one of the first to arrive at the scene on the day of the incident TV Diário/Reproduction Passenger sucked out of the plane window: a similar case has already happened to a pilot, who spent 20 minutes 'hanging' outside and survived Accident with a TAM plane that killed a person in Suzano turns 26 Who was the victim Fernando Caldeira de Moura was a deacon and attender of the Evangelical Christian Church of São José dos Campos. At the time of the accident he was married and had two young daughters. Fernando's family was from São Sebastião, on the north coast, and he owned a company that served the aeronautical sector, especially Embraer.