Those responsible for the investigation of the plane crash with 62 victims that occurred on Friday in the state Brazilian from São Paulo said on Sunday that they had recovered all the information contained in the black boxes of the crashed plane.
“On Sunday morning we achieved 100% success in obtaining voice and data information from the recorders (black boxes) in the moments leading up to the accident,” 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, in a press conference held in Vinhedo, a city in the interior of the state of São Paulo where the accident occurred, said that investigators will now begin to analyze all the data extracted to try to discover the causes of the accident.
“The work has just begun. The data has been obtained and validated and now we have to transform this huge amount of data into useful information for society,” said the general, who highlighted Cenipa’s ability to extract data from the black boxes without the need to request help from other countries.
Moreno did not provide any information about what was recovered and promised to deliver “within 30 days” a first preliminary report with the data obtained and which could clarify much of what happened with the Voepass airline plane.
The two recorders, one a voice recorder with conversations in the cockpit and another a data recorder with all the flight information, were recovered on Friday night and sent on Saturday to Cenipa’s main laboratory in Brasilia.
It is premature to comment on hypotheses in Brazil
The general said yesterday that it is still premature to comment on the different hypotheses that specialists have put forward regarding the causes of the accident, the main one of which is the possible accumulation of ice on the wings of the aircraft, which would explain its spin.
“At this time we cannot say whether that was decisive or not,” said the officer, who clarified that the aircraft was certified to travel in such conditions and had devices to prevent the formation of ice.
According to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), both the aircraft and the crew were in regular operating condition and all required certificates were up to date.
The teams that had been working on the rescue since Friday completed the recovery of the bodies of the 62 victims on Saturday night and transferred them to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in São Paulo, where two have already been identified.
The crashed plane, a French-made twin-engine ATR-72-500, was flying between Cascavel and São Paulo with 58 passengers and 4 crew on board and crashed about 80 kilometres from its destination.
Despite landing in a residential area, the aircraft crashed in the backyards of a residential complex without damaging any buildings or leaving any victims on the ground.
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2024-08-14 02:35:17
