Diamond Member Pelican Press 0 Posted August 11, 2024 Diamond Member Share Posted August 11, 2024 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up What We Know About the ****** of VoePass Flight 2283 in Brazil A passenger plane carrying 62 people crashed on Friday outside São Paulo, Brazil. No one onboard survived. The plane crashed in the yard of a home, but it did not hit any residences and no injuries were reported among people on the ground, officials said. Here is what we know about the ******: The plane was on its way to São Paulo. VoePass Flight 2283 took off from Cascavel, in southern Brazil, at 11:46 a.m., the This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . It was headed east to Guarulhos airport, just outside São Paulo. Near its destination, the plane’s transponder signaled that it was descending quickly from its cruising altitude of 17,000 feet, according to This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , a provider of flight data. For about a minute, the transponder reported losing altitude at This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up , the company said. Officials said that the pilots sent no emergency signal. There were 89 seconds between the indication of a problem to the final data received from the aircraft at 1:22 p.m., Flightradar24 said. The plane crashed in Vinhedo, a small city northwest of São Paulo, the airline said. Videos showed the plane spiraling down. Videos filmed by people on the ground in Vinhedo showed the aircraft slowly spinning horizontally as it fell from the sky. The loud rumbling of a plane’s engine could be heard. After the plane disappeared from view near a gated community, a giant plume of ****** smoke was seen rising from the spot. One video showed a house on ***** and a yard full of debris, including a shredded fuselage, twisted metal, and part of the cockpit. The plane was an ATR 72. The aircraft was a 14-year-old ATR 72, a twin-engine turboprop. Brazilian officials said that it was in compliance with the country’s regulations. It was operated by VoePass, a small Brazilian airline serving midsize cities in Brazil. The airline said all of the plane’s systems were operating correctly when it took off. The same plane had flown from São Paulo to Cascavel earlier on Friday, according to Flightradar24. ATR is a ****** venture of two ********* manufacturers, Airbus and Leonardo, specializing in turboprop planes. There were 1,200 ATR aircraft in service globally as of March 2023, This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . The cause is unknown. The airline and Brazilian officials said they were investigating what had gone wrong. Aviation safety experts regularly warn against speculating before investigations have concluded. Such inquiries typically take months and even years. Previously, icy conditions have contributed to crashes of other turboprop planes. In 1994, an ATR 72 operated by ********* Eagle crashed in Indiana, ******** all 68 people onboard. A federal investigation blamed the manufacturer for not disclosing enough about the model’s vulnerability to ice, leading ATR to add more ice protection equipment to the aircraft. Flightradar24 said that there was an active warning for severe icing in the area where the plane lost control on Friday, in addition to meteorological reports of turbulence and thunderstorms. The ****** ******* everyone on the plane. There were 58 passengers and four crew members onboard. Initially, VoePass reported that 61 people had *****, but the airline said on Saturday that an additional passenger was among the *****. That passenger’s name had not appeared before because of a technical error during boarding, the airline This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up . This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up #****** #VoePass #Flight #Brazil This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up For verified travel tips and real support, visit: https://hopzone.eu/ 0 Quote Link to comment https://hopzone.eu/forums/topic/96244-what-we-know-about-the-crash-of-voepass-flight-2283-in-brazil/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
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