On Christmas Day, Hilo's aircraft repeatedly failed during approach, then stopped working after landing.
1. Projeto Humanos – O Piloto, Episode 7 examines Hilo's friendships, aviation activities, disappearance, and disputed assets in Foz do Iguaçu.
2. Ivan Mizanzuki hosts the investigation, while Cassiano joins him to understand his father Hilo through witnesses who knew him before 1986.
3. The episode asks what Celso Maciel's memories, flight records, and financial stories can establish about Hilo's final period.
4. Celso Maciel, age 76, recalls meeting Cassiano as a child and flying with Hilo in aircraft including the J3, BTE, and BKU.
5. Celso describes a BKU losing fuel, rolling in a field, and leading to his and Hilo's temporary arrest after they covered the aircraft markings.
6. Hilo's flight notebook records training in 1964 and regular flights from 1981 through 2000, including multiple entries involving Celso.
7. Celso says he and Hilo spent years repairing a cheap aircraft whose engine had failed after someone forgot to add oil near Laranjeiras.
8. The aircraft-repair work involved trips by car to Londrina, parts from Asunción, a propeller inspection in Curitiba, and more than a year of delays.
9. Celso remembers Hilo as sociable and generous, saying Hilo visited friends frequently and sometimes bought bread while paying with a check.
10. Celso rejects the idea that Hilo simply ran away, while confirming that Hilo invited him to travel on the day connected to the disappearance.
11. Ivan reports that Hilo's camera was later found at the aeroclub, although Celso does not remember the camera being part of their shared activities.
12. Family accounts connect Hilo's assets to Rubens, Castorinho, Dr. Álvaro, debts, and handwritten agreements that were difficult to verify.
13. A search of property records found a coastal Paraná plot, a former apartment, Wanda's house, and two Foz do Iguaçu plots bought in November 1986.
14. Ivan says the official records contained no farms, apartments, or houses matching the larger collection of assets described in family folders.
15. Celso recalls depositing approximately 50,000 with Rubens after selling the BTE and receiving checks that were supposed to include interest.
16. Celso also remembers Hilo discussing gold, jewelry, and a possible trip to a garimpo, although Hilo had not settled the details.
17. The reporting compares Celso's account of a malfunctioning aircraft on Christmas Day with Cristina's account of similar problems during a flight with friends.
18. Ivan uses recorded conversations, flight notebooks, property searches, and witness interviews in an investigative, conversational format.
19. Aviation-history and disappearance-case listeners who value witness testimony.
20. Listeners seeking a resolved mystery or fast-moving narrative payoff.
