Looking like it was icing. I read it took one to two minutes to hit the ground, started falling at 16,000, what a way to go.
Maybe, maybe not.
"The Voepass airline plane that crashed Friday in the interior of the Brazilian state of São Paulo in an accident in which all 61 occupants died was in regular flight condition and did not report any emergency, those responsible for the investigation reported.
"It's all very premature. The only thing we have so far is that there was no communication (from the pilot of the plane) with the control bodies that there would be any emergency," said the director of the Center for Investigation and Prevention of Air Accidents (Cenipa) of the Brazilian Air Force, Brigadier General Marcelo Moreno.
The official added at a press conference that the pilot did not communicate with any control tower to report problems, so he hopes that the black boxes of the aircraft, already rescued, can give some clue to what happened.
According to Moreno, the flight went normally until 1:20 p.m. Brazilian time (16:20 GMT), when it stopped answering calls from the São Paulo Approach Control Center, and a minute later disappeared from radar.
The general said it was very premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists have pointed out about the possible causes of the accident, the main one of which is about the possible formation of ice on the wings of the aircraft, which would explain its vertical fall and spinning on itself.
"It is too early to say anything. At this time we cannot say whether or not that was decisive for what happened," said the director of Cenipa, who clarified that the crashed aircraft has a certificate to fly in those atmospheric conditions (of ice formation).
According to the military officer, the plane has devices to prevent the formation of ice in its fuselage.
The director of the National Civil Aviation Agency (Anac, regulator), Luiz Ricardo de Souza, said at the same press conference that both the plane and its crew had all the required and updated certificates.
"The plane was totally regular and in normal airworthiness conditions. It complied with everything provided for by the legislation," said De Souza when referring to the aircraft manufactured in 2010 and operating in Brazil since 2022.
The official added that the crew members were also with all their certificates in legal conditions and up to date.
The plane, a French-made twin-engine ATR-72-500 model, crashed on Friday afternoon in a residential area of the Brazilian municipality of Vinhedo, in the state of São Paulo."
El avión de la aerolÃnea Voepass que se estrelló este viernes en el interior del estado brasileño de San Pablo en un accidente en el que mur...
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