There was at no time a declaration of any type of emergency from the aircraft,
The way the aircraft fell, spinning out of control, is characteristic of someone who lost the functionality of the wing and the aircraft controls,
They may have tried to speak, and the radio failed, the communication failed,
We're talking about Brazil here, not Antarctica,
Did the crew activate the anti-icing system?"
There is still no estimated completion date for this work,
The plane is sensitive to ice. It's a starting point,
If there is enough ice, then it changes the shape of the wing, and that could cause it to stall at a much higher speed,
When I heard the sound of the plane falling, I looked out my window at home and saw the moment it crashed,
Twenty men were mobilised, including three vehicles from the Valinhos Municipal Civil Guard and one vehicle from the Civil Defense,
A flight tracker shows the path of the Voepass flight that crashed near São Paulo, Brazil, with 62 people aboard. It remains unknown what caused the crash.”
But we can see a plane with loss of support, no horizontal speed. In this flat spin condition, there’s no way to reclaim control of the plane,
At this time, Voepass Linhas Aereas prioritises providing unrestricted assistance to the families of the victims and effectively collaborating with the authorities to investigate the causes of the accident,
I went out on the balcony and saw the plane spinning. Within seconds, I realized that it was not a normal movement for a plane,
I have to be the bearer of really bad news,
If the plane spins and starts to fall like that, it’s because it lost the speed that kept it in the air,
Our first thoughts are with all the individuals affected by this event. The ATR specialists are fully engaged to support both the investigation and the customer,
I arrived at the scene and saw many bodies on the ground -- many of them,
As we see a possible body in the middle of the destruction of the plane, rescue teams come in. Then they take pictures, gather as much evidence from the victim as they can so the identification can be the most accurate,
I was having lunch, I heard a very loud noise very close by,